This is the key.Originally Posted by TheCurmudgeon
... and knowing this the US has introduced through the "pop-centric" approach to counter insurgency the alternative of throwing massive amounts of money at the problem. Doesn't work.
This is the problem Syria faces as there is no doubt that had they clamped down on the unrest on the scale Assad senior had done in 1982 with the Hama massacre where tens of thousands of people were killed in a short time it would be all quiet now.
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