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weapons will not accomplish that.
It will merely prolong the period
of time the conflict will continue,
because the threat of formal military intervention by the West will
presumably have been removed
in the short to medium term. In
the absence of some other action,
or series of factors, that would
preclude a similar threat of military intervention by the West, the
conflict will probably continue as
a stalemate, in which neither side
can achieve a military victory.
Fourth, the war weariness and
skepticism of the voters of the
West is not going to change in
the short or medium term. After a decade of war involving the
international community in Afghanistan and Iraq, not only is
there little political support for
military intervention in the Syrian conflict, there are limited
financial resources available to
apply as a result of the “new normal” following the Great Recession, and even less desire among
the general public to become
embroiled in yet another Middle
Eastern conflict. Many citizens
of the West believe its engagement in Afghanistan, Iraq and
Libya achieved little in the end,
and was not worth the resources,
DANIEL
WAGNER
HUFFINGTON
09.15.13
It is indeed a leap of faith
to presume that, a) Mr. Assad
will declare every single agent,
and b) that the international
community will be able to
detect every single agent.”
blood, and effort. Every time in
recent history that the West has
stuck its finger in the Middle
East, it has not turned out well.
So what is the incentive to do so
here, they ask.
In the unlikely event Mr.
Assad’s
agreement
to diplomacy
brokered
by their ally
Russia may
stop possible
U.S. airstrikes.