THE ROAD TO HAMA D. Greenfield Back during the Iran-Iraq War we viewed Saddam Hussein as the lesser evil. This time around our Saddam is still a Sunni pitted against a Shiite in a new version of the conflict taking place in Syria. The Syrian Civil War is likely to end more like Hama than Stalingrad. The Assad clan has survived challenges before and the Sunni rebels are losing. And unlike Russians, Muslims don’t tend to fight to the bitter end nearly as much. Instead they run away to fight another day. The Iran-Iraq War was unique in some ways but it had two dominant tyrants on both sides pushing men into the meat grinder. This time around there are only clumsy coalitions dominated by politicians who want someone else to do the fighting and dying. That’s why the Turks, Qataris and Saudis have dragged in the United States. The Return of the Iran-Iraq War in Syria
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:58:07 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015