08-31-2013, 06:53 AM
I'm reading an op-ed piece in the WSJ, it's written by a journalist who has spent time in Syria and I find a couple of things striking, first is that there are very few journalists in Syria, I'm told to question what is being reported because of that and the second is that the people fighting aren't just the regime & the rebels, it's more complicated than that, there are several factions fighting each other there, they all want their piece of that country to control, north, south east & west. Saudia Arabia & France have been sending money and arms to the rebels but were asked by the US not to send state of the art weapons and they say they have complied.
I feel more than ever that we need to stay the hell out of this and I think our Prez is making himself look like a boob when he says these are the rules we fight by, we don't want to take you out of there, we just want to bomb your shit and show you who is boss. Of course he didn't say those exact words but that's what I've taken from his comments.