Bugsy McGurk
President
For the longest time, we had to listen to people, especially deranged right wing kooks like John McCain, argue that we should arm the rebels fighting the Assad government. Who are those rebels? Various al Qaeda affiliates and ISIS, who are keeping very busy cutting peoples' heads off and otherwise slaughtering people.
But then ISIS cut off an American's head, and started slaughtering the Azidis in Iraq. The right wing kooks, including McCain then did a 180 - they want us to now go to war against those very same rebels they wanted armed, including bombing them in Syria, thereby boosting the very same Assad regime that they previously wanted to bring down.
Fortunately, Obama resisted the dopes urging that the terrorists in Syria be boosted by the USA - they are strong enough as it is. And now we do face a difficult question - whether to bomb the vicious terrorists in Syria, which would allow Assad a better chance to hang on, after listening to right wing kooks argue that we must do everything we can to bring down Assad.
The morale of the story is that meddling in such Middle East affairs is a fool's errand, at least until our own interests are directly implicated. Or, as Obama put it - don't do stupid stuff.
But then ISIS cut off an American's head, and started slaughtering the Azidis in Iraq. The right wing kooks, including McCain then did a 180 - they want us to now go to war against those very same rebels they wanted armed, including bombing them in Syria, thereby boosting the very same Assad regime that they previously wanted to bring down.
Fortunately, Obama resisted the dopes urging that the terrorists in Syria be boosted by the USA - they are strong enough as it is. And now we do face a difficult question - whether to bomb the vicious terrorists in Syria, which would allow Assad a better chance to hang on, after listening to right wing kooks argue that we must do everything we can to bring down Assad.
The morale of the story is that meddling in such Middle East affairs is a fool's errand, at least until our own interests are directly implicated. Or, as Obama put it - don't do stupid stuff.