Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
In the case of Syria that the situation has spiraled into civil war indicates that there has been another diplomatic/proxy military cock-up. That is blindly obvious. Get it?
How is that a "cock-up" for anyone but the Syrians? No outside party caused this and no outside party ever had a reasonable opportunity to prevent it, so how does it become a "diplomatic/proxy military cock-up"? What did you expect anyone to do about it?

Everybody's incompetent, everything is a "cock-up", but no hint whatsoever of what you think should have been done. Priceless.