Sunday, May 05, 2013

"Andrew Tabler: How to start another war in the Middle East in two easy steps"*

"[Tabler] has long advocated military escalation in Syria – and remember he has no military training or experience but speaks in detail about good ways to start a military conflict. My earlier point was that these ideas were really obtuse when the regime was much stronger, and they remain so now. Here are two of his “bold” ideas thrown around in the mass media (amazing that simplistic points about how to start a massive conflict are self-named “bold” and that passed the editor). Just note how jocular the style is. Amazing that after the Iraq mess, this form passes the basic smell tests:"

PS * Please note that when the headline is in quotation marks it means I did not write it and that it was supplied by either the author of the quotation in the post or by the person who sent me the link.