This time, war-weary America would refuse to help until it was too late. There would be no serious effort to arm the moderate rebels who sought to deny ISIS its safe haven, and no air strikes to harry ISIS’s leadership and supply lines.
Two points.
First, who are these so called “moderate rebels”? If there were moderate rebels,Mae were clearly never able to find them. Less radicalized rebels, perhaps, but not moderate. The Syrians had pretty much destroyed any moderate opposition to Assad.
Second, has US intervention in the region ever worked out well? From the Shah, to Saddam, to Egypt, we have backed brutal, repressive regimes, that have choked off any moderate opposition, so that when they collapse, there is simply chaos. We cannot shape the world to create stable, western leaning democracies with the tools we have at our disposal.
