O, hail, my fellow bored American Idol fans curious peeps who are so utterly concerned about peace and justice in the world!
Realpolitik can be a real biach, I say. The biachiest biach of them all, actually. So here are a couple of fancy maps with many colors that look kinda realpolitik-ey.
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American aims seem more likely to keep Sarin shells out of the hand of Al-Qiada than to assist the Syrian people in resolving their conflicts with Assad.
If we wanted to help the Syrian people, we would have armed those factions more heavily, or just gone in with both feet ourselves.
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I would like to suggest that while energy barons are vying, there has to be some validity to the fight the Syrians have been waging against their oppressive government.
These things are not mutually exclusive, and neither is hijacking their real struggle against real oppression into a useful narrative for power, sadly. We know this in the states all too well.
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