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mixedmedia said:Why Syria?
And how are we supposed to invade another country when we can't even get a grasp on Iraq?
We have a grasp on Iraq. It's just rough and they need time to step up. They need to realize that this is their country and it's time to roll up their sleeves. (The Kurds are doing it) Most of the hard core extremists are from Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Iraq had an "in your face" dictator that everyone wanted gone and it was easy to rid him from the Middle East. The Iraq was a great place to offer a Democracy - "one country down." Attacking Syria would have been like Iraq. Attacking Iran or doing something about Saudi Arabia would have been huge!! For that, we need help. Kicking their militaries asses would be easy. It's the insurgent mayhem that would follow and it is the extremists that we are really at war with. The problem is that they don't belong or have allegiance to a particular country. Gutting current establishments, like Iraq, offers the peaceful Arabs to do something good for themselves and it draw out the extremists, as we are seeing in Iraq.