Article behind paywall, but IIRC this was one of the more astute observations re US intervention. Between Syria, Libya, and Iraq, US employed diff of doing nothing, military operation w/o occupation, and military operation w/occupation, and *all* were disasters in their own way.
https://twitter.com/RichardHaass/status/461339675962388481
We can only ever know the results of our actions or inactions. It's really easy to point to the failures and costs of what we've decided to do or not do, but it's impossible to predict what would have happened had another course of action been taken.
As I keep saying, foreign policy is often a choice between, "really, really bad" and "somehow even worse."
Both action and inaction have their own negative consequences and sometimes the best we can hope to do is mitigate those negative consequences to the best of our ability.
Both action and inaction have their own negative consequences and sometimes the best we can hope to do is mitigate those negative consequences to the best of our ability.
Also, I was wrong re the original article, can't find the one I'm thinking of but the point still stands.
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