"We're the fiscal conservatives in this equation," Duncan said.
"We're not your big-spending militarists."
The Post article about weapons delivery notes that the U.S. has
committed itself to "a $250 million effort to support moderate factions of the
Syrian opposition" -- a mere trickle of spare change, in Defense spending terms.
Yet that's what it would cost to sustain Duncan's vision of sending 5,000
trained peacekeepers to Syria for a year.
This sounds like the next thing we, "the other superpower,"
should demand. We stopped a war, or at least drove it out of the headlines and
back into the shadows. Now let's turn our effort toward building real peace.
Robert Koehler is an
award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. His
new book, Courage Grows Strong at
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