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How might US intervention, if applied, further destabilize Syria? Egypt?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    If an invasion of Syria occurs, there will be a war of unprecedented proportions. Just like in Libya, the US would kill tens of thousands of civilians and bomb the infrastructure of Syria back into the stone age, destroying houses, schools, hospitals, and anything else they can drop a bomb on.

    However, Syria has air defense technology that is 5x more advanced than that of Libya, and it has Russian S-300 missiles which are among the best anti-aircraft missiles in the world, so the conflict would be much longer and bloodier than in Libya, and would cause enormous casualties on both sides.

    Also, Starting a war with Syria means potentially starting World War 3, because Syria has a mutual defense pact with Iran, and Russia has said they will retaliate if Syria is invaded.

    And if the Syrian government is successfully overthrown, there will be total chaos and destruction everywhere, massive sectarian violence will erupt, hundereds of thousands will die, minorities like Christians and Alawites will be massacred, radical Islamists will take over, and a puppet government will be installed that will sell the whole country away to the West and the Gulf states.

    Libya already recieved a "humanitarian intervention", and look where it got them. 50,000 dead, a country in ruins, no functioning infrastructure or institutions, armed militias fighting in the streets, thousands of people rotting in secret prisons, people getting kidnapped and tortured every day by the new "democratic" government, thousands displaced from their homes, and regions threatening to declare independece and split the country into pieces.

  • KarenL
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    This question is somewhat moot, since this administration could not keep opening a lemonade stand secret let alone trying to send an armed force into Syria or Egypt.

    Hillary has done an exceedingly excellent job of turning a fairly stable nation (Egypt) into a radial state which will soon restart mutilating girls at the age of 12. Something Mrs Sadat sought to stop in the 1980's.

    Syria, was truly brutal, but it was rewarded by the UN and condoned by silence by the US in its rump rule of Lebanon to the expense of tens of thousands Christians. Lebanon was once the Paris of the Middle East, with tolerance, liberty, and the joy of life. But Carter and others allowed that way of life to be destroyed.

    Since Obama and Reid have not passed a budget in over three years, some 500 billion dollars will be cut from the defense budget of the US via sequestration starting in January. Notices of defense industry closings will be sent out prior to the election.

    Assad and his French wife could have with a hint of moral support could have stabilized Syria from the more radical factions (terrorists), but that was not the goal of Obama and the Saudi Funded Clintons. Interesting weapons will sadly become visible if the UN continues to follow its current path of destroying stability in Syria.

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