The whole point of the "arm chair analysis" was to show that american actions, no matter how benign american politicians portray them, have monstrous and unforeseen consequences.
America has no strategy and is not doing anything pragmatically - bombing ISIS is purely political kabuki theater to reassure the American people that they are taking action. Every part of your response echoes what the author accurately diagnoses as the total oblivious ignorance of the American outsider.
And finally: how well have airstrikes stopped the Taliban? What's that it's a great recruiting tool. But just keep going with that pragmatic airpower, then the pragmatic boots on the ground, then the pragmatic occupation...
The whole point of the "arm chair analysis" was to show that american actions, no matter how benign american politicians portray them, have monstrous and unforeseen consequences.
America has no strategy and is not doing anything pragmatically - bombing ISIS is purely political kabuki theater to reassure the American people that they are taking action. Every part of your response echoes what the author accurately diagnoses as the total oblivious ignorance of the American outsider.
"Who really has any reason to be bothered over the Kurdish areas of what used to be Syria?" That's the kind of lazy, blasé history-be-damned shit that started this whole quagmire. A bunch of know nothing American cowboys riding in to tame the wild east.
And finally: how well have airstrikes stopped the Taliban? What's that it's a great recruiting tool. But just keep going with that pragmatic airpower, then the pragmatic boots on the ground, then the pragmatic occupation...