That’s what military escalation will accomplish. Look what happened with us post-9\/11. Endless, savage, unproductive war. Make that counter-productive, as we see with the rise of ISIS as a direct result of our Iraq invasion, something that at least Bernie Sanders was willing to point out at the Dem debate.<\/p>\n
Unlike so many Dems, Sanders refuses to allow the Republicans to dictate what aspects of their performance in office are acceptable to criticize.<\/p>\n
Nadia Prupis at Common Dreams reports some of what the few sane, prudent voices in geopolitics and media are advising.<\/p>\n
“ISIS ‘is hoping to precipitate a Western ground offensive in Syria that would be as disastrous as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the very invasion that fed what would become the “Islamic State’,” wrote<\/a> Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East studies at the Paris School of International Affairs at Politico<\/em> Sunday.<\/p>\n “But as Institute for Policy Studies fellow and peace activist Phyllis Bennis explained<\/a> in an op-ed for The Nation<\/em>, ‘wars of vengeance won\u2019t work for France anymore than they worked for the United States.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s what military escalation will accomplish. Look what happened with us post-9\/11. Endless, savage, unproductive war. Make that counter-productive, as we see with the rise of ISIS as a direct result of our Iraq invasion, something that at least Bernie … Continue reading