Imminent mistakes in Syria

[kandrathe]

That kind of regime change, or to be more bluntly direct. The mentality that the US somehow has a divine right to just go ahead and 'regime change' another country at her whim.

Agreed. Hence, why I said it was grey area. If we (US, UK, France) want to be the good guys, we could mind our own business. But, some people object to regimes that do the mass killing, ethnic cleansing, lifestyle/belief intolerance, brutal dictatorships, etc.

Pragmatically speaking, it's still as dangerous as lobbing 'just a few' missiles\drones into another country.

The US, Russia have been covertly manipulating third world politics since prior to WWI, and the UK and France longer than that. P.S. It was US Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo, who said in 1917 to his father-in-law Woodrow Wilson and then reigning ruler of the USA, "You have done a great thing nobly! I firmly believe that it is God’s will that America should do this transcendent service for humanity throughout the world and that you are His chosen instrument." That has been emblematic of our imperialist operational creed for over 96 years.

Yankee (and by that I mean the US foreign policy), go home. If the US wants to play 'nation building', there are many infrastructure projects and repair that your own country can use and desperately needs.

I'd like to think we could do that. But, I'm afraid if we signal that we're packing up, reeling in the worldwide base structure, and staying home, that it would give a green light to some big bullies, instigating quite a bit of nation toppling and armies rolling through Asia, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and ultimately Europe.

I'm not a huge AIPAC guy, but without big friends in the area, Israel will cease to exist.