Eric Margolis explains the increasingly idiotic American war in Syria.

What a mess! In the crazy Syrian war, US-backed and armed groups are fighting other US-backed rebel groups. How can this be?

It is so because the Obama White House had stirred up the war in Syria but then lost control of the process. When the US has a strong president, he can usually keep the military and intelligence agencies on a tight leash.

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As a result, the two arms of offensive US strategic power, the Pentagon, and CIA, went separate ways in Syria. Growing competition between the US military and militarized CIA broke into the open in Syria.

Fed up with the astounding incompetence of the White House, the US military launched and supported its own rebel groups in Syria, while CIA did the same.

Fighting soon after erupted in Syria and Iraq between the US-backed groups. US Special Forces joined the fighting in Syria, Iraq and most lately, Libya.

While nothing good can possibly come out of this shifting mire of stupidity, many things could go very wrong. Some already have. Some probable outcomes to consider:

• At best huge amounts of dollars are wasted and a few Americans are killed;
• Huge numbers of Syrians and others are killed, maimed, and displaced;
• Displaced refugees flood into the West;
• The refugees are mad as hell with us (and with pretty good reason);
• More terrorism (here not there);
• The possibility of ISIS or some other radical group actually acquiring a nation;
• The spread of the above to surrounding areas;
• Full blown U.S. war with casualties, expenses, and no win possible (see Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.);
• War with Russia (worse than no-win);
• A government corrupt enough to move on and do it again somewhere else and a population ignorant enough to let them.

We were warned against such foolishness. In addition to the warnings we have actively seen these things play out live. Some of these examples are recent. Very little of all this activity is hidden.

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That the people keep falling for and supporting this insanity defies belief. Yet still it happens. How does this happen? And why?