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Gen. Dempsey: Syria no-fly zone could cost US $1B per month
[TheHill] In a letter to Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Michigan. He has been in the Senate since 1979. Prior to that he was president of the Detroit city council and Mayor Coleman Young's right-hand man. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services... (D-Mich.), Dempsey also warned that a no-fly zone risks U.S. forces deploying into Syria if U.S. aircraft are shot down. Dempsey's letter, which lays out the costs and benefits to a range of military options, expresses skepticism over U.S. military intervention helping to end the two-year civil war and what might come afterward. "We must anticipate and be prepared for the unintended consequences of our action," Dempsey wrote. "Should the regime's institutions collapse in the absence of a viable opposition, we could inadvertently empower forces of Evil or unleash the very chemical weapons we seek to control." Posted by: trailing wife 2013-07-23 |
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