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Originally Posted by Richard T. Eger
As has been said: "You break it, you own it." Syria and Iraq are broken. Africa isn't much better. But the biggest problem right now is ISIS as the world is uniting against it. The above is a possible way toward repairing Syria and could serve as a benchmark as to how to deal with lesser terrorist organizations as well. In part, we'd be learning as we go. This time around, hopefully, we'll be smarter.
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Dear Richard,
Iran is focused on spreading its ideology, not fighting ISIS. The current pattern of Iranian activity can be traced back to the Iraqi Shi'a uprising in April 2004, coordinated by Iran. You may know that Iran is currenly active in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere. This started well before the formal emergence of ISIS in spring 2013.
You are committing a factual error when you suggest that Russia is bombing in Syria in retaliation for the attack on a Russian airliner. Russia started bombing on 30 September, the airliner was bombed on 31 October. Even more important is the fact that more than 90% of Russian air strikes are directed at the opposition to Assad, not at ISIS -
http://www.dw.com/en/us-turkey-most-...ria/a-18767378 .
It is rather strange that you consider Assad's government to have been stable or to be stable at the present time. The assasination of Lebanon's prime minister in 2005 and the destruction of a secret nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007 would suggest the opposite.
I would venture to suggest that you are inverting logic by proposing that ISIS is the biggest threat
because the world is uniting against it. I would suggest the opposite is the case, that 'the world' or large parts of it are demonstrating a degree of unity precisely because they feel ISIS can be dealt with easily. Meanwhile, Assad's armed forces are still causing almost all the civilian casualties in the Syrian civil war -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...e-problem.html .
Regards,
Paul