“Editorial: The awful, terrible, unavoidable choice on Syria
So now the Arab
Spring of 2011 will become the U.S. Summer of Syria in 2013. And no doubt the
fall and winter of Syria, too, and in all likelihood, not just in 2013. The
United States is going to intervene militarily in yet another sectarian war in
the Middle East.
What a terrible, awful, inescapable decision this is.
It may well have come too late.
It may well not do much good. It could make things worse. But it has to be done
— human decency and America’s moral standing in the world demand it. But if it
must be done, it must be done well. And that is going to be very tricky indeed.”
Cassi Creek: I grew
up reading Joseph Pulitzer’s newspaper.
I also read the St Louis Globe-Democrat (which wasn’t at all
pro-Democrat) until it rolled over belly up.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has always been a place to find accurate and
critical reporting that attempts to maintain the original Pulitzer standards.
The article
linked above is a reasonable approximation of what I put forward
yesterday. I remain adamantly opposed to
any military aid for forces involved in wars that place wiping out religions
other than Islam or wiping out other sects of Islam central to the
conflict. Food, perhaps medical support
for civilian casualties, and let the militants and the loyalists slug it out until
Syria and surrounds are paved with gray concrete fragments and green
glass, That’s likely to be what it takes
to end this next war in our future.
In the
meantime, we would be best served to make the search for non-fossil fuels into
the next Manhattan project. Then we can
quit basing foreign policy around appeasing and supporting petro-dictators. That sentence, no doubt, tripped some
corporate Listening post and placed another mark on my disloyalty to big oil
score sheet.
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