"[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:"
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