“I want to go on record as saying that this is the stupidest, most irresponsible action a diplomatic mission like ours could get itself involved in, and that we’ve started a series of these things that will never end.” Dean Hinton, US State Department official pertaining  to planned CIA coup against Syria in 1949 (1) … Continue reading Countdown to the Destruction in Syria? Timeline of US and Allied Interventions in Syria (1916-2016)