British Prime Minister David Cameron, a normally sensible fellow, in attempting to justify western aid to the group of thugs he favors in Syria in their fight against the group of thugs he doesn’t favor, argued yesterday that Syrian President Bashar Assad is
“…a brutal dictator who is using chemical weapons under our nose.”
Mr. Cameron, his French counterpart, and, presumably, our formerly cautious President Barack Obama prefer General Salim Idris, the latest third world fraud parading around calling himself a “moderate” in order to access western cash and a place to defect to if things don’t go his way.
Let’s assume for a moment that General Idris wins this conflict with generous help, including who knows what at this stage, from the west and becomes the latest western stooge to occupy the seat of power in a Middle Eastern ethnic jigsaw puzzle of a “country.” Should that be the outcome in Syria, one wonders how long it will take Messrs. Cameron, Obama, Hollande and others who are seemingly so anxious to create another dystopic terrorist breeding ground in Syria to call General Idris
“…a brutal dictator who is using chemical weapons under our nose.”
As I have said on numerous occasions in the past (Only my latest post on Syria is 5/29/13 ’s RUSSIAN ARMS TO SYRIA: THANK YOU, COMRADE?; please read it and the posts to which it will direct you.), we have no friends in Syria and there are no moderates, whatever that means, in Syria . We are left with a choice between the devil we know and the devil we don’t. We do, however, have a promising course of action, to wit, stay the hell out and tell the winner we are willing to do business with him to the extent it is in our interest to do so. Mr. Obama, though, has just announced his intention to back, with American arms, trainers, and air cover (but only for a “no fly zone” over the areas in Jordan in which we will “train” the Al Qaeda members and wannabes we will be backing), the devil we don’t. Despite his rhetoric to the contrary, Mr. Obama apparently shares the George Bush view that we indeed can and should save the world and make it over in our image. Terrific.
We never do learn anything in this country, do we?
I would admit that I supported the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe it's because I've been reading your articles or I see the results of the war and the outcome of Libya that I think I've learned from my mistake. Like you said, it's too bad others haven't.
ReplyDeleteI would rather have a country hate us for staying out of it rather than spending money so the US can be blamed for screwing it up.
By the way, where are the Chinese in this conflict?
Thanks, Mark; spreading the word makes writing this blog worth it!
ReplyDeleteI especially like your comment on prefering a country hate us for staying out (and they probably won't hate us for that anyway) than having them hate us for screwing things up...after the expenditure of American lives and money.
The Chinese are staying far, far away from this one. Smart. We have much to learn from them, certainly in this case.