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What are we doing in Syria?

My first reaction to news earlier this month that the Syrian government had been overthrown was

how much did we have to do with it?

How involved with the CIA? And how much is it going to cost? As with

Saddam and Qatdafi before him, we know that Assad was no libertarian hero. But unleashing an army of

dedicated to establish an Islamic state in a once secular Syria hardly seems like a good idea to me.

As with President George W. Bush's mission accomplished moment after Saddam's overthrow,

getting rid of Assad will prove to be the easy part. Rebuilding Syrian society after the

destruction of the country will cost billions and will likely be about as successful as liberation

of Libya, which is still a failed terrorist-dominated state more than a decade later.

In 2017, the Los Angeles Times published an article that, sadly, speaks volumes about the insanity of our interventionist foreign policy. In Syria, militants armed by the Pentagon

fight those armed by the CIA, read the headlines.

How does it make any sense that the Pentagon is fighting a proxy war with the CIA on Syrian soil?

What's worse is that the American people are forced to pay for this Pentagon versus CIA war and then forced to pay again to rebuild

the country after all the destruction. The Syrian people will feel the costs in more than just

dollars. How involved is the federal government in the overthrow of the Syrian government? For the past 10

years, the U.S. has controlled

the areas of Syrian oil and wheat production, stealing resources that we have no legal claim to.

The combination of resource theft and extreme sanctions hollowed out Syrian society over the past 10 years.

So when the terrorists sprang forth from Idlib a few weeks ago, there was little resistance.

Now, instead of the relatively benign yet authoritarian rule of Assad,

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