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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
All too often we look for 'good guys' and 'bad guys' in conflicts. This civil war is between a murderous dictatorship and an amagamation of religious zealots whose oppression might match or exceed the murderous dictatorship. While everyone is claiming moral outrage that the US didn't intervene, I would say as a third party there was no reason to add American lives to the casualties and risk a greater international incident with Russia for the sake of Islamist extremists.
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Obama basically said as much yesterday. No clear idea who to back, complicating Russia factor, would have to basically go all in and "take over Syria" or would have been a disaster for America and allies.