Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Syria. In case you missed it the first time through.

I wrote about Syria the other day and had the lightest response for any blog in the this year's list. Why?  People do not care about Syria. But I believe you will if the administration and Congress get us involved in their battle. Remember, we don't have a dog in this fight. It is between waring religious sects. Sunnis on one side and Shiites on the other.

It is not our fight.Not our war. Not our concern. but so help me, I bet you we get involved.  It is good for business. Good for national moral. Good for everything except the lives of the men and women it will cost to get involved in yet another boondoggle.

I doubt that this blog stirs much passion. The one I wrote about Obamacare and Taxes went through the roof. The one on city elections, likewise. But a conflict in the Mideast that has implications far sinister than anything our myaor of his cohorts have cooked up, gets barely a nod.

That is your prerogative. You are, after all, Americans. and as troops return home from far away places like Afghanistan and Pakistan and I suppose some day Syria...you'll wave your little American flags and cheer.  "The heroes...returning home. The brave who saved our democracy." Sorry. It is not true. Not one life in Iraq or in Afghanistan was spent saving our democracy. Not one. It is a myth.

We go to war based on economic needs, and political currency. The president is facing some tough times in D.C.  If he is like his predecessors, he will pick a fight somewhere to get America looking abroad instead of at home. Reagan did it. Bush One and Two used the old trick. And Clinton, too. And right now the best fight to pick is with Syria.

But it is not a moral fight No matter how the spin doctors couch it. We are not going in for humanitarian needs. We are going in because A) it is good for business and B) it gets the Republicans off Obama's back.

But you won't take notice. you don't care about Syria. And in the long run, neither should our government.

It is not our fight.


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