American Involvement in Syria

A fifty-year veteran of American intelligence recently told me how once, as a young officer, he had blurted out that a situation he had been reporting on was so bad that it could hardly get any worse.  One of his mentors quietly stared at him and then observed, “It can always get worse.”

My friend has always remembered that moment and recalled it this past week when he and I were talking about Syria, which we now agreed resembled one of Dante’s circles of Hell.

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