Anthony Cordesman makes the argument that there may be just as many disadvantages to doing nothing, as we are mostly doing now, as there are disadvantages to doing more, only nobody is talking much about the disadvantages of doing nothing. Among the disadvantages are, the dying of innocents goes on bigger, better and longer. If Bashir wins and regains the whole country, there may be an Iranian dominated arc running from the Iranian plateau to the Mediterranean Sea. That might not be good. The country may be split, with Bashir holding a part and the insurgents holding a part. As time goes on now, the wild eyed Islamist killers dominate the insurgent ranks more and more. That is not good. And finally the insurgents may win somehow. The might be worst of all, a Syria run by wild eyed takfiri killers. Then again if we were to try and do something, given the character of our leadership, it would be tentative and fearful, a "follow me boys, sort of, if things look good but only for a bit and we must be prepared to run away" type of thing. Not so good is that.
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