Fighting needs guts, cowards cause greater deaths.

Completely inexplicable! The US has warned Russia not to supply arms to the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad because it may escalate the fighting in Syria. The fighting would have been over long ago if the US had not supported the rebels initially. The rebels are getting arms from Arab governments and Turkey with the help of the CIA. Where are the Arab states getting arms which they are supplying to the rebels and with which they are bombing Yemen into rubble? From the US, of course. Millions of people in Yemen, the poorest country in the middle east, are staring at famine. Perhaps it would be cheaper to pay people smugglers to transfer the entire population of Yemen into Europe, as is happening from Syria and Libya. The long brutal war in Syria has resulted in the rise of the Islamic State which has taken savagery to an art form. Whereas terrorists operate in small groups and try to minimise their own loss by using car bombs or suicide bombers the IS has been highly successful against conventional armies, as shown by its rout of Ramadi. However, it is one thing to be a religious fanatic, willing to embrace death for a paradise filled with 72 virgins, it is quite another matter to devise complex battle tactics to defeat a trained army. Clearly, the IS has very sophisticated advisers. Where have these come from? They are former officers of Saddam Hussein's army. But surely Iraq's army was destroyed by the famous US 'shock and awe' tactics and the terrific fighting prowess of its marines? Turns out that the great battle for the capture of Baghdad was all theater because there was absolutely no resistance. Instead the highly trained US marines slaughtered a bunch of unarmed civilians, including women and children. So, where was the Iraqi army? The US had bribed senior officers of the elite Republican Guards to betray Saddam so they ordered their soldiers to desert en masse. Some of these officers are now devising tactics for the IS. Saddam was a Sunni, who are about 20% of the population, the majority 70% being Shia. It is exactly the opposite in Syria. Al-Assad is an Alawi, which is 11% of the population, the majority 70% being Sunni. The hatred between Sunni and Shia go back one thousand years so to meddle in this quicksand is to invite disaster. Apparently the US and Britain are encouraged by the 'success' of bombing in ending the Bosnian war so they think that bombing is the perfect way to get rid of baddies without risking their own soldiers. Bombing Serbs resulted in the 'independence' of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia and may lead to the division of Ukraine where the west organised an armed revolt against an elected president. Put in Iran and Israel and we have a nuclear explosion waiting to happen. War is savage. It needs guts. Cowards only increase deaths.