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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] it wsn't until Trump that "[ISIL] imploded right after external support for the 'moderate' rebels dried up," which is consistent with studies demonstrating that "external support for thea opposition tends to exacerbate and extend civil wars, which usually peter out not through power-sharing agreements among fighting equals, but when one side—typically, the incumbent—achieves dominance." [/quote]

Er, thats not what happened.   The US plan was to get to a power sharing agreement. Instead Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, poured MASSIVE external support to the regime, and no one else was going to match that, or take a chance on a war with Russia.  Absent that intervention (which was not at all predictable, but was part of a global change in grand strategy by Putin)

That is quite seperate from the war on Isis - which was won more by the US supported Iraqi army and by the SDF (Assads SAA was busy fighing the FSA)  while Obama was in office, and the momentum continued after he left office (under the leadership of SecDef Mattis, who is now " a terrible general, a loser")

Why are we getting Trumpist apologia in a thread about Tulsi? Because yes, they are tied together. [/quote]

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