In the New Math of the Beltway, 9,000+ bombing sorties = "nothing".https://twitter.com/LizSly/status/686965859395461120 …
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The Beltway "knows" that Washington should have bombed Syria harder, earlier. No interest in what a political deal in 2012 might have done.
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There is an ethics even to speculating about military violence & its alternatives. This ethics is foreign to US political & media elites.
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What media should be faulting Obama for is failure to go for a political deal in Syria in '12 when one was possible:http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/05/why-kofi-annan-enough-over-syria …
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David Remnick,
@NewYorker's editor and Iraq invasion supporter, also faults Obama for not bombing Syria earlier:pic.twitter.com/dciudypFAz
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For Remnick and so many others in genteel media, "inaction" in Syria means only failure to bomb earlier, not failure to make political deal.
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Speculating about what US might have achieved with a political deal in Syria is not idle. Clear hindsight is not "cheating", it's essential.
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