According to the New York Times it appears that the C.I.A has found a new group of rebels to arm with the tools of the trade. My question to you is... haven't we learned our lesson yet? Do these so-called "covert" operations ever work out as planned? Does anyone recall Somalia? How about the government that the C.I.A installed in French Indochina? For those of you that forgot, that one led to the Vietnam war. I would rather have a vasectomy performed by blind Stevie Wonder using a rusty fork than to see us get caught up in another mess again, which is exactly what this looks like from the early reports. This is the problem with being a world power, we always feel the need to police the entire planet and put bullies in their place.
Now, I am by no means saying that the actions be taken by the Syrian government are anything short of atrocious, what I am saying is that maybe it is time for us to stop getting up in everyone else's affairs and pay more attention to what is going on right here on our own soil. We are sitting in a pretty precarious position as it is, do we really want to push the envelope by getting involved in another conflict? Have we forgotten about the boys and girls we already have in the deserts of the middle east engaged in two wars?
Syria is also an ally of Russia. The Russian government has been repairing the helicopters of the Syrian army and has publicly avowed to continue doing so. Great!!! Let us get that whole cold war thing up and running again. Who wants to live in peace anyway? Maybe if we are lucky the British are still sore about the revolution and are now looking for a rematch!!!
Being the biggest kid on the playground will always come with its responsibilities. The feeling that we should be doing more to ease the pain of those being brutalized will always be there. Pressure from the rest of the world to help those in need will be a constant. Staying on top, now that is a completely different animal. To stay on top you must learn to pick your battles. You must decide which fights are worth risking lives for and which ones you'd be better off turning the other cheek to.
For those of you who think that I am wrong, for those of you who think that it is our duty to police the rest of the world I would like you to think back a little. Think about us helping a small group of afghani rebels fight off the supposedly big, bad Russians. We armed them and schooled them in the art of tactical warfare. They paid us back a few decades later when their current leader, Osama bin Laden decided to wage a holy war against us and took down the twin towers...
Is it hot in here or am I Crazy???
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