And therefore hundreds of thousands of anti-regime demonstrators have taken to the streets, calling for the end of the Assad family tyranny. Among them, in the city of Homs, are a hundred or so defectors from the Army (according to Al Jazeera).
And still there is no American support for the Syrian people, any more than there was or is for the Iranian people. Yes, I know it’s all about money 24/7, but the future of the world is also being fought out in the streets of our enemies’ countries, and it behooves at least some of our “leaders,” above all those who claim standing to be our next president, to demand action against regimes that kill their own people (as the Valkyries promised they would, and as various pundits claimed Obama had decided) and ours.
Real action. Starting with clear words and continuing with real support for the revolutionaries.
This call to get involved in every country that kills it’s own people is nuts.
We need to publicly support the protesters, condemn any force by the regimes and covertly actively support the uprising. Sending the military into every shit hole backwater country that has a protest will bankrupt us quicker than we’re doing it to ourselves.
walt, nobody in my house wants to invade Syria or Iran. We do want to support the revolutionaries with words, technology and money.
Have you noticed that Obama seems unable to walk and chew gum at the same time? He dwells on one issue, until he’s fairly soaking in it, and every issue that came before and maybe boiling over on the back burner is completely forgotten. The news media seem to accommodate or perhaps enable this tunnel vision. Right now, everything is about the debt ceiling, morning, noon and night; questions regarding Libya, to take just one example, they’ve just swept off the table and onto the floor. Yet just a few weeks ago the passing of the War Powers deadline without the White House seeking authorization was the hot topic and it still remains unresolved.
yeah well we live in the world of instant commentary and short attention spans. I keep telling my publishers and editors that the proper length of a contemporary book is probably around 80 pages ( my latest on Naples is a tad over 100…)
tv first, and the blogosphere next, creates brains that cannot focus on issues for more than a few minutes (i think 6 is the usual tv segment between commercials). the “world news” on local radio here in Washington is 2 minutes long…