If those who promoted wars had to be the first in line to fight, regardless of age or any other factor, the U.S. would never have gotten involved in the Middle East. From Brandan P. Buck at responsiblestatecraft.org:
Some want to suggest what is happening in Syria is cause for celebration. But not everyone is ready to embrace our new, strange bedfellows.
The rapid fall of the oppressive Assad regime after a prolonged civil war has elicited a variety of reactions. One such measured response expresses “hope that the process of power transition be carried out in a manner aligned with the aspirations of the Syrian people, paving [a] path for the establishment of an independent […] government.”
A more jubilant take argues that “the fall of a brutal dictator is rare enough that we should take the opportunity to celebrate it and pay tribute to those who brought it about.”
Indicative of the bizarre parallel motives that this war has created, the Taliban issued the former statement and neoconservative Bill Kristol the latter. Kristol fails to mention that among those “who brought it about” were America’s enemies during the Global War on Terror (GWOT), specifically that the new governing authority of post-Assad Syria is Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a designated terrorist organization and offshoot of Al-Qaeda.
