not accommodating the US election cycle.
I find this site to be a decent (certainly partisan) place to stumble into a recap:
http://www.petercliffordonline.com/syria
I'm not sure if safe haven's. no fly zones and such are going to wait unto mid November. It is a US political, geopolitical, and local regional political, military, and economic minefield.
Sure, the newscycle tired of the Arab Spring, but this is not the Arab Spring folks read about.
It got stepped on by the Olympics, and now the US conventions, but they are doing some really ugly stuff there.
Yes. Crap happens in the Congo too. Crap has happened in Myanmar.
It is awkward to say that a turd in Syria is a bigger turd than a turd in Congo. But the US doesn't spend a lot of time formulating Carrier Battle Group schedules around matters in the Congo.
Nobody here needs me to remind them of of the arch of the fertile crescent, of border lengths, of oil reserves, of shipping channels, of warm water ports, of the Levant, of where the country of Israel happens to lie, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, the Suez, the Straights, Russia, China, Turkey, of Shia and Sunni, or Persian and Arab, Afghanistan, etc etc etc.
Yikes.
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