{"id":30202,"date":"2012-06-01T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30202"},"modified":"2012-06-01T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:23:53","slug":"here-we-go-again-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30202","title":{"rendered":"Here We Go Again \u2013 Part II?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote about the possibility of US intervention in Syria<\/a> recently. Well, it looks like it\u2019s not only the CJCS who\u2019s hinting at potential US intervention in Syria. Now we hear much the same from the US Ambassador to the UN<\/a>, Susan Rice.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the UN, said that Russia’s veto-wielding membership of the Security Council would not necessarily prevent international action. If the violence worsened and the peace plan proposed by Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, made no progress, some countries would consider whether to bypass Russian and Chinese opposition in the UN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Some countries would consider whether to bypass Russian and Chinese opposition in the UN.” Hmmm. A public statement like that by the US Ambassador to the UN seems to me to be a reasonably clear signal. But then again, I\u2019ve never been accused of being a diplomat.<\/p>\n

The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, also appears to have obliquely alluded to potential US intervention, albeit differently and of perhaps a different type. In the linked article, Clinton is quoted as saying that the US State Department has told the Russians \u201ctheir policy (regarding Russian support for Syria) is going help to contribute to a civil war.” Yes, this could refer to Russia\u2019s steadfast diplomatic support for the current Syrian government. But it could also refer to a change in policy on the part of the US \u2013 specifically, that the US will now provide diplomatic and\/or material support to Syria\u2019s rebel factions. That’s a different type of US involvement in Syria – but it still constitutes a US intervention. And US material support for one side of a war often has a way of ending up involving those wearing a uniform sooner or later.<\/p>\n

As I said previously: there may well be a good case to be made for US intervention in Syria. But to date, I\u2019ve not seen that case made by the POTUS or his administration. And until that case is made, I\u2019m reluctant as hell to support a US intervention there. Unless it\u2019s shown to be in the US national interest to intervene in Syria \u2013 and that the expected cost of intervention is commensurate with the expected gain to US security \u2013 IMO we should leave well enough alone. Sometimes \u201cthe devil ye know\u201d really is<\/strong> better than the devil ye don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

As Vietnam showed, the time to have such a discussion is before we\u2019re decisively involved in a foreign war. Not after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote about the possibility of US intervention in Syria recently. Well, it looks like it\u2019s … Here We Go Again \u2013 Part II?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}