My man Charlie Pierce: What if there is no plan? What if there is no strategy America can adopt that will help matters in any serious material way? Any final military solution would require at least some American ground troops. Any political solution would require us to cut deals with horrible people (Assad in Syria) and/or with our putative allies who divide their time between buying off the savages and using them to try and scare the American people into sending our military back to save their oil-sodden asses..... What makes us think that, given our history in the region, we have the credibility to produce a lasting solution to the problem of people who just want to slaughter each other?.... The collective American political memory doesnt encompass anything like this. When these animosities were born in that part of the world, North America was peopled by moundbuilders along the Mississippi River. .... What if the only real solution is for these people to decide on their own to stop slaughtering each other? What if the choice comes down simply to joining the bloodshed or not?
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:31:10 +0000
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