echelon1k1
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You just can't get it right can you;i think it will end with bombing the shit out of some military posts. no boots on the ground.
http://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/meb/MEB64.pdf
Intervention in Syria: Reconciling Moral Premises and Realistic Outcomes
The Syrian military, while no match for the full firepower of the U.S. or NATO, is nevertheless not an insignificant forceand,more critically, it is enmeshed in densely populated civilian centers. To disarmit without inflicting huge human casualties would require not simply an air campaign, as was the case in Libya, but rather, by some estimates, two to three hundred thousand boots on the ground. Such force would be crucial to fully defeat the regimes security forces, enforce civil peace, and prevent the subsequent unleashing of retaliatory massacres by opposition groups. Furthermore, to have lasting impact, such an intervention would have to be prolonged and would require extensive investment in state-building, at great cost.