Shameful that State would cede effective diplomacy to Defense's ineffective bombs

"Dozens of U.S. Diplomats, in Internal Memo of Dissent, Urge Strikes Against Assad” is distressing headline for how the State Department with effective diplomatic arrows in its quiver would cede these to the Defense Department’s guns and bombs which have proven to be singularly ineffective in a region of government dysfunction. The first arrow is to Balkanize Syria among its major sects of Sunni Arab, Shiite and Kurdish peoples to better isolate the bad actors and protect the good. Negotiate with Russia and Iran to put their client Bashar al-Assad in his Alawite enclave by the sea and then declare Damascus an open city.  2nd is to provide economic aid and support to Syria’s Kurdish in the northeast with the intent of partitioning it off. 3rd and finally promote the move of Jordan’s Syrian refugee camps back across the border into Syria’s southeast with the intent of aiding and protecting an enclave for the development of a functional Sunni Arab government that displaces ISIS.