Condoleeza Rice Advocates Sending US Troops to Syria

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Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on Monday's CBS Evening News called for the President to send United States ground troops to Syria, because they are the only ones that can do the job.  Here we go again!  Condi must have conveniently forgotten the Iraq debacle which cast that country into chaos.  Democracynow.org reported on March 19, 2013 the cost of the Iraq War ten years later totals $2.2 trillion in US taxpayer money and amassed 189,000 in lives lost, including both civilian and military deaths from the US and Iraq.

America still has troops fighting in Afghanistan until the withdrawal begins next year.  I guess Condi believes we have an inexhaustible supply of military personnel and money to use in yet another "mission impossible."  Have you seen the number of wounded soldiers who have lost limbs and other parts of their bodies, Condi?  Who do you think they are?  The vast majority form the generation of parents raising kids that will decide our future.  We don't need any more military personnel in their teens and early to mid-twenties fighting in the Middle East.   If the Middle East in concerned about Bashar al-Assad and his supporters, let them take up arms against his regime. 

The United States is not, nor should it be, the world's police force.  Rice said the US is the only country that can do the job.  Au contraire, Condi.  Russia, China, UN forces--all of these options and more exist.  I am sick to death of the hawkish culture that has evolved around guns and munitions companies, and so are a majority of my contemporaries.  Battles fought on the ground hark back to the technology yesteryear.  If western countries have any hope of stemming the tide of dictators who think nothing of wiping out masses of their own countrymen, it will not happen on a battleground. 

Readers, if you agree, deluge Ms. Rice with messages stating your opinion.  Although she served as Secretary of State, she has little in the way of substantive accomplishments to qualify her as an expert in fighting a war successfully.