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Why the US is unlikely to rush into Syria with guns blazing. RELATED By threatening "enormous consequences" if the Syrian regime were

The needless battle to use chemical weapons in its civil war, US President Barack Obama has appeared to be saying that a chemical attack would EDITORS’ PICK The lights are on bring the Americans running in with guns blazing to rescue the butnobody’s in rebels. Although the rebels, who seem to be increasingly desperate, United we fall might understandably take that to be the message, this is likely to be a substantial misreading of American policy.

There may be some military punishment launched from a distance India's return to TOP STORIES on the Syrian regime in response to what has been maintained is its Olympic fold delayed, use of chemical weapons. However, the US is unlikely to follow that IOC rejects IOA's I don't have PM ambitions, compromise formula want to serve Gujarat till up with serious intervention in the ongoing civil war. Military 2017, says Narendra Modi intervention in Iraq, like that in Afghanistan, was a response to the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, and those experiences should Bill to keep political parties out of RTI sent to standing not be taken to be precedents. While they demonstrate that the US committee may launch an invasion if attacked, its response to problems that are essentially humanitarian has been quite different. Unveiled the teaser of Geetika Sharma suicide Aamir Khan's Dhoom 3 case: Former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda gets In the decade before those two wars, the US did get involved in bail some humanitarian missions, but it rarely showed a willingness to sacrifice American lives in the process. In Bosnia and Haiti, for India's return to Olympic fold delayed, IOC rejects example, intervention on the ground was held off until hostilities IOA's compromise formula had ceased. Bombs, but no soldiers in boots, were sent to Kosovo, and in Somalia the US withdrew its troops as soon as 19 of its Photos: Anil Kapoor Asaram often met women woos Madhuri Dixit soldiers were killed in a firefight. In the case of many other alone at night to 'heal' once again them, aide tells police humanitarian disasters, such as those in Rwanda, Congo, and Sudan, the US, like other developed nations, has substantially stood aloof. The intervention in Libya was strained and hesitant, and Washington showed little willingness to do much of anything about the conflict in neighbouring

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Mali that was spawned by the Libyan venture. 17 months after his American public opinion is clear on this issue. Asked in 1993 about the statement, "Nothing the 100th ton, MCA yet to US could accomplish in Somalia is worth the death of even one more US soldier," 60 per cent of felicitate Sachin Tendulkar the public expressed agreement. The public was anything but enthusiastic when American peacekeeping soldiers were sent to Bosnia in 1995, and they remained that way for years thereafter even though no Americans were killed in the venture. The Kosovo war of 1999 was a success, at least in its own terms. However, in its wake, when pollsters asked "Do you think it will be best for the future of this country if we take an active part in world affairs, or if we stayed out

of world affairs?" the percentage of Americans who said the country should stay out of world Jail authorities reject affairs abruptly bolted upwards. It dropped after 9/11, but with the subsequent experiences in Asaram's demand for Iraq and Afghanistan, it currently stands at the highest ever since the question was first posed in gangajal and a special bed late 1945.

Some commentators contend that we witnessed the rise of a new militarism in the US in the last couple of decades. But this overreads the reaction to 9/11. The event did send Americans into something of a militaristic rage. But it did not alter their reticence about becoming involved militarily in humanitarian missions. It seems unlikely that concerns about the use of chemical Karan Johar Ram weapons in Syria — however repugnant that might be taken to be — will notably change that basic Gopal Varma reignite pattern. Twitter war

The writer is a political scientist at Ohio State University and senior fellow, Cato Institute

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