Cassi Creek:
Today we
still have no idea what the Obama administration will decide to do about the
Syrian Civil War. We’ve heard evidence
that seems to confirm the use of chemical weapons against a civilian
populace.
We’ve moved
naval assets into position to launch a cruise missile strike. But we have no decision to engage in another
facet of the ongoing tribal-religious conflict that is the Middle East. Since we have no announced goal in Syria
other than some sort of punitive strike that will not serve to end conflict, it
makes no sense to expend U.S. troops and ordnance in a conflict with no clear
purpose and no defined exit point or strategy.
This
conflict, like the rest of the Middle East wars and the southwest Asian wars, are
about which branch of Islam controls the most people. This is essentially a fight between Iran and
Saudi Arabia using every proxy they can enlist and disguising their religious was
as a battle against US and Israeli presence in the Middle East.
Syria is not
worth the expense in ordnance or in the lives of our troops. Let the Arabs and the former Persians sort it
out. It’s their tea party and they are
the mad hatters in this unreality.
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