There's nothing worse than being at a party and feeling like no one wants you there.
By "party", I mean the Syrian civil war.
By "no one" I mean everyone in the middle east.
The Syrian civil war was always a proxy war between outside military powers, but this week the proxy element became much larger and much more dangerous.
For example, today are forces are rushing to the Syrian-Turkish border to try to stop our two allies from shooting each other.
Turkey has bombed northern Iraq every once in a while for decades.
This is different.
I don't know if either of these theories have any basis in fact, but at the same time I can't totally rule them out either.
I know it's all the fashion in politics today to call for regime change in Syria, and who doesn't like the idea of yet another chaotic, Mad Max-style failed state, amirite?
But I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy, and one of those old-fashioned ideas is that people should chose their own government. I know that self-determination is out of style in mainstream Democratic circles, but humor me anyway.
The question is: How do we determine what the Syrian people want?
Some thoughts on America's attack on Syria.
(add: Jacobin article)
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/tulsi-gabbard-president-sanders-democ...
It is satisfying to be a contrarian and later proved correct. Two previous essays number one and number two dealt with what many feared would be an amplification of the not-so-civil war in Syria, portending to be the start of WW3.
Again, as with a look at his 2013 interview about the problems with the no-fly zone and regime change ideas for Syria, I found Secretary Mattis' press conference today reassuring.
The Russian President announced that Russia will officially turn to the UN in the Hague for an investigation of the chemical weapons' use in Idlib. Moscow has dismissed suggestions that the Syrian government that it backs could be behind the attack in Idlib province.
File this in the WTF department. An already overcrowded pigeon hole earns another entry. Before posting this, what the heck are we doing with labeling frenzy? Identity politics to the max. Alt-Right, Anti-Fa, centrist, neoLiberal, NeoConservative, Progressive, Regressive, Depressive. Where does it end? Are we c99ers Alt-Left, marginalized Free-thinkers, burned-out Berners? Can't tell the players without the labels.
