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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
These threads love nothing more than delivering the phrase "boots on the ground" over and over.
It seems there is no possible happy ending for Syria, and I think anyone has any bright ideas for stopping the murder of innocent bystanders that is happening every day.
You hope they can just carve the area up and divide it between all the interested parties, but even then you are not going to have success unless millions uproot and leave their homes.
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No your right. Right now, more then in any other situation that we've seen recently with the Arab Spring movements that happened and the unhappiness in Egypt and other nations, the Syrian situation represents the perfect storm of the problems with the UN in its current structure. International diplomacy falling back to cold war levels. A fairly brutal dictator with advanced weapons in hand and the willingness to use them and a severely imperfect rebel uprising.
Its a mess that can't be straightened out and represents the perfect Winnie the Pooh tar baby for anyone that dares get involved.
It would be nice to see something like a split of the country, but that's never going to happen. Both sides are basically going to brutalize each other either until the Rebel Groups and most of the sympathizing populace are wiped out, or Asaad is hung by his boots on main street. My over fear is we're going to see a dissolution of a bunch of Arab states into Anarchy with Iran gathering the power that falls into their laps.
Most nations that had uprising looked to the Iranian example on how to handle it, and that's with systematic brutality with god supposedly on your side giving you divine right to rule by any means necessary