✚ Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists - By Gary Gambill

Gary Gambill in Foreign Policy:

So long as Syrian jihadis are committed to fighting Iran and its Arab proxies, we should quietly root for them -- while keeping our distance from a conflict that is going to get very ugly before the smoke clears. There will be plenty of time to tame the beast after Iran's regional hegemonic ambitions have gone down in flames.

How did that work out for you in Afghanistan, Gary? 

Sometimes I think that the ideas of some policymakers and analysts in the US and Israel (this guy is from Middle East Forum, a neocon / Israel lobby outfit) amounts to "let's set the whole region on fire" if it hurts Iran.

It's from twitter, so read from the bottom...

Here's the piece he refers to: After Bashar al-Assad, the Deluge | Center for a New American Security

(Edit: I initially mistakenly wrote Robert Kagan rather than Kaplan in the headline.)