I basically have one foreign policy present that I’d like for Christmas:
- Stay out of Syria. No troops. No “advisors.” No weapons shipments to “friendly” rebels. No no-fly zones. Nothing. If Putin wants to waste his time there, let him.
Syria is a tragedy. If I could wave a magic wand and stop the killing and the refugees and everything else, I’d do it. But there’s no magic wand, and there’s nothing within reason that the United States can do to influence the outcome of the war. So just stay out. Period. That means you, Hillary.
That said, we obviously have an interest in eliminating ISIS, and once they’ve been driven out of Iraq they’ll have to be driven out of Syria too. I don’t know what that will involve. Maybe drone attacks, maybe some super-secret special ops missions that everyone knows about. That’s fine. But stay out of the civil war. Nothing but catastrophe will come to anyone who insists on getting involved.
