I am a regular visitor of your blog. During the last four years, you have been a vocal opponent of military intervention in Syria. I wonder what your viable alternative is to this fiasco. I want to emphasize the word 'viable' as I feel like many of your suggestions are stereotypical liberal delusions, considering the imperial expansionism of Shia Iran.
Why should the Arab states help US in her fight against IS? President Obama was resisting the calls to arm the moderate Syrian rebels until recently. Most importantly, he walked away and redrew his red line for Assad last year, to the detriment of the Syrian people, simply based on the empty lip service from the new administration in Iran. America has been helping the enemies of Sunnis to kill Sunnis for the last 15 years, and has helped the creation of a monster called the Shia Crescent that is threatening Sunnis and Sunni states. Now that these American puppets are in danger, President Obama just remembers that there is something called humanity and suffering on the ground, and he needs to do something to help those people who are suffering, while he did nothing to help 200,000+ Syrians who were massacred by the 'secular' Assad and his 'moderate' Shia helpers. I think the Sunni Arab states are too civil- or maybe too timid- that they did not slap Obama in the face like Turkey. I would have been surprised of the level of their dumbness if they had indeed committed manpower and forces for this fight that is eventually Shias' fight to fight.
Dear Prof. Cole,
I am a regular visitor of your blog. During the last four years, you have been a vocal opponent of military intervention in Syria. I wonder what your viable alternative is to this fiasco. I want to emphasize the word 'viable' as I feel like many of your suggestions are stereotypical liberal delusions, considering the imperial expansionism of Shia Iran.
Why should the Arab states help US in her fight against IS? President Obama was resisting the calls to arm the moderate Syrian rebels until recently. Most importantly, he walked away and redrew his red line for Assad last year, to the detriment of the Syrian people, simply based on the empty lip service from the new administration in Iran. America has been helping the enemies of Sunnis to kill Sunnis for the last 15 years, and has helped the creation of a monster called the Shia Crescent that is threatening Sunnis and Sunni states. Now that these American puppets are in danger, President Obama just remembers that there is something called humanity and suffering on the ground, and he needs to do something to help those people who are suffering, while he did nothing to help 200,000+ Syrians who were massacred by the 'secular' Assad and his 'moderate' Shia helpers. I think the Sunni Arab states are too civil- or maybe too timid- that they did not slap Obama in the face like Turkey. I would have been surprised of the level of their dumbness if they had indeed committed manpower and forces for this fight that is eventually Shias' fight to fight.