Regime change brought nothing but misery in Iraq and Libya

[Ken Burch]

Why would anyone think it can make anything better in Syria?

[EdwardBernays]

1. Well....

This is the issue isn't it... We love democracy, so much so that we're willing to use invasions, wars and coups to force it on to people. The irony shouldn't be lost on anyone.

At the same time we can't even manage to facilitate voting and a dwindling minority of Americans actually trust our own democracy.

And of course, how many dictators that we helped prop up, are we supposed to be so enraged by, that we support a massacre of their country's population, to remove them?

US foreign policy has been a horrible decades-long joke, and the thousands of dead civilians on US hands - who died for absolutely no reason at all - are the punchline.

[tk2kewl]

2. don't forget about Iran

[stillwaiting]

3. Destabilization would appear to be the objective.

Otherwise, advocating for regime change again makes no sense.

Clearly destabilization benefits a few groups/players (at least in the short term), and they don't seem too particularly worried about the chaos, death, and destruction this brings. This fact is not lost on ME'ers (which obviously helps radicals recruit more radicals which helps world governments impose more and more draconian "security" measures to usher in their glorious new order).

The ensuing chaos is actively being sought. Which makes these people very special indeed.