<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Carl, Unless there has been a military c<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">oup d'état</span>, the Pentagon is not where the order to bomb Syria came from. </div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: C G Estabrook </div><div><br></div></div><div class="userContent _22jv _3576 _5pbx" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_84"><p class="">The Pentagon seems to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing this century. </p><p class=""> What would be the popular response to a 'shock and awe' invasion of Syria, a la Iraq?</p><div class="">—CGE</div></div></body></html>