Wrong.

Editor,

It boggles my mind that 19 Saudi Sunnis attacked the USA on 9/11 and yet, incredibly, the USA is backing Saudi Arabia -- and arming Sunni jihadis -- demolishing Syria in the process, in Saudi Arabia's war with Iran on Syrian soil.

This is going to help Israel? It is not helping Syria!

And these pronouncements about "messages" and who will be deterred from doing what or assured that the USA "means business."

These are fantasies. Dr. Strangelove fantasies.

Loose the dogs of war, and Islamic extremists you arm in Afghanistan to fight your enemy the USSR turn their bombs on you. Invade Iraq for made-up reasons convinced you will be greeted like liberators, and Iraqi society is demolished, still at war with itself 10 years later.

I can predict the future. So can you. So can the Pentagon.

And we will all be wrong 100% of the time.

Partially right occasionally, but always mostly or entirely wrong.

Re: "Drawing a Line on Syria, U.S. Keeps Eye on Iran Policy" (9/3/2013)