More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration's policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent violations of a cease-fire in the country's five-year-old civil war.
The memo, a draft of which was provided to The New York Times by a State Department official, says American policy has been "overwhelmed" by the unrelenting violence in Syria. It calls for "a judicious use of stand-off and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process."
Sort of like bombing North Viet Nam in the 60s.
The names on the memo are almost all midlevel officials ‐ many of them career diplomats ‐ who have been involved in the administration's Syria policy over the last five years, at home or abroad.
While there are no Scenario - Libya or Iraq? Maybe Somalia? Maybe Yugoslavia.