Hong Kong feels like an inevitable conflict that would have happened later if not now, but the Turkey-Syria mess seems so damn avoidable.
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It seems (and actually was!) avoidable, but the Obama administration wanted to avoid involvement in Syria then. As you may have noticed, this failed miserably.
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A small minority of us in the previous administration warned of this day when we decided to arm the YPG on the footsteps of Turkey. We were over ruled by those who wanted an expedited war against ISIS without addressing its root causes in Iraq and Syria. twitter.com/business/statu…
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