09-13-2013, 09:56 PM
(09-10-2013, 05:06 PM)Jester Wrote:I don't know if we (whomever you mean by that) want to, but I deem Saudi and Iran wishing to continue their struggle ... and I think Turkey will soon be involved more than they are at present.(09-08-2013, 12:57 PM)Occhidiangela Wrote: Yep, and it isn't just the US interested in that. Saudis have a vested interested in that.
The more I think about this, the Iran/Saudi conflict, and maybe also the Iran/Israel conflict, must be driving this. There just doesn't seem to be any other reason to really, really want to bomb Syria, without so much as a peep about who is supposed to take over, or even what we're supposed to be shooting at. Which suggests that they have some targets in mind - it has been suggested that anti-air equipment might be a particularly good target.
Do we really want to go back to the cold war? Just to get a leg up on Iran? Or to give the Saudis one? I'm not exactly warm about Russia's involvement in the region, but at least they haven't started shooting.
-Jester
The Great Powers of the world only have so much leverage. The silver lining to this cloud is that we may end up with a good piece of cooperation between Russia and America on this. And we may not. The details of any deal on the weapons transfer are pending, and may ultimately fail. I hope not, but this isn't suitcased yet.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete