Seemingly having learned nothing from our long and futile escapades in Iraq, America is now poised to make the same stupid mistakes all over again in Syria. (I hope not. I love my Cousin Barry, but he has regrettably fallen under the spell of the generals and has forgotten Ike's timeless advice to "beware the military-industrial complex.")
As has been widely reported, the U.S. spent over $40 million to train and equip "rebel fighters" to overthrow the nasty Assad dictatorship. We stopped after sheepishly acknowledging that our efforts had produced "4 or 5" Syrian opposition soldiers.
"We usually think we know who the good guys are. In Syria, we know exactly who we don't like. We're against the Assad regime. We're against its principal opponent, ISIS. We're against all the Al Qaeda affiliates in Syria. We're against all the Shiite militias, the ones the Iranians are funding, like Hezbollah. So we're against everybody. We just haven't figured out who we're for. We want to be for good, moderate Syrians who are like Jeffersonian Democrats, and it turns out there are 4 or 5 of them."
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