OneTime on 25 October 2016
| Lafiel said: foreign troops ... wouldn't ever be able to install a stable government in the region |
This. Also, I'd add that we've seen a number of countries where the West has intervened, and has not intervened. We can now see empirically that there isn't an easy choice. 50% of the time things sort themselves out anyway, and only 50% of the time does intervention seem to have made things better.
I do feel bad for the US though, as there is no correct answer. They will get blamed whichever choice they make! We should have stopped Syria getting this bad though...
