Syria

We were very distressed to hear that the US is talking about intervening in Syria. Nobody ever wants to use the word “quagmire”, but that’s obviously what we have in the Middle East. And we really need to keep from getting in any deeper.

A very astute, 84-year-old, internet friend posted this today. It’s right on the mark and, with her permission, I’m posting it here. I would only add that the situation in Syria seems to be almost entirely a religious conflict.

I feel dreadful about all that is going on in Central Asia and the Middle East. My studies of History tell me though that we are better off hands off. Cruel as it sounds, interfering does not solve the basic problems between the antagonists.

The only real and permanent solution is to allow them to slug it out unimpeded until either one side emerges triumphant and takes leadership of the country's future, or all sides become so vitiated and exhausted that they negotiate for peace and form a coalition government.

Any country that invades just becomes a much hated conqueror and will be ambushed and hounded until they give up their role of colonial power and retreat to their homeland. Then, the old protagonists just take up where they left off until their dispute is finally settled in one of the ways mentioned above.

I am not trying to be political here. Far from it. I am just telling it the way I see History telling it. It is sort of like some sibling children fighting ferociously over some petty quarrel, but hey, don't let any neighborhood kids try to get into it! The siblings will turn on them and, after sending them scurrying back to their own homes, will resume their own internecine battle!

Well said!

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