[ SECRET POST #2440 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2440 ⌋

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Comments

Re: I feel bad, but...

[ill_omened]

These are deeply complicated questions to be considered, yes.

I'm just saying a blanket 'not our problem' approach is troublesome.

Re: I feel bad, but...

[(Anonymous)]

I think these considerations are broadly present in most cases where the US would consider intervening, though. I think a lot of the logic, and the rhetoric, and certainly a lot of the policy concerning US intervention comes from a belief that it is possible to intervene effectively in countries in ways that cost relatively little commitment - a belief that is basically fantastical. I think interventions are usually far more difficult and costly than we tend to think.

I'm not quite a neo-isolationist or anything, but I do think that when we talk about interventions, we tend to assume that we're more powerful and more able to do things than we probably are. I think interventions are a serious matter, and if we're going to intervene, we better be really damn sure that it's something important, and we better be really damn committed to it. And I don't think that's the case in Syria and I don't think that's the case with most interventions the way they're talked about in Washington and in the media. I think these are not just complicated questions about a Syrian intervention; I think they are indications of something problematic in our whole foreign policy attitude.