Nerve gas in Syria vs. the nerve of a president to say something stupid about crossing a red line that put us right where we are today. Now what? A three-hour air war? Something far more devastating to U.S. ground forces? And later? There's a "chill wind" blowing, said actor Tim Robbins when George Bush held Office, and now with Barack Obama in the Oval Office there's a hot red line advancing right up our butts. Great Britain wants nothing to do with this mess, most of the American people feel the same and Congress is going to waver and waffle on a decision until they determine what it means for elections. Boehner already caved, no surprise there. Will this be a line of bureaucratic red ink, or a line of red blood spilt by American soldiers?
Flashbacks. .
.of liberals who condemned George Bush. . .as they should have. . .but who now
feed hungrily at the war trough of Barack Obama. . .and Internet postings by
members of the all-volunteer military services, wondering why they're being
asked to support Al Qaeda and other terrorists in Syria as we lean toward
action in support of these (including cannibals) so-called rebels. The true answer can only come from the Muslim
Brotherhood-loving Barack Obama, and he's not talking that talk.
By the way,
where is the "red line" when people such as Robert Hastings and
former Air Force captain Robert Salas consistently come up with current and
ex-military personnel who watched UFO activity over nuclear missile bases,
invasive activity sometimes reported to affect numerical missile codes? Now that's national security
territory! I would suggest that's the
sort of "red line" that should have White House personnel screaming
from the rooftops. But, oh, silly me, we
aren't supposed to pay attention to that kind of news, only the pap fed
to us by our government-friendly TV networks.
Anyway. . .Syria. . .
Pardon my
immense cruelty, but if we rush off to destroy something on a continent every
time a dead child's face shows up on the evening news -- and TV performs
exceptionally well at showing such inflammatory images -- often jeopardizing
thousands of our own young military personnel sooner or later, we will
never get out of the jams we currently endure and pay big money to
operate. In the meantime, poison gas or
not, the U.S. military has undergone severe cuts and more are coming in the
weeks ahead, and I think we know who to thank for that. Treaties and poison gas and death and
destruction -- it's always been left up to us, but "us" can't
continue attempting to solve the world's nastiest problems anymore -- and
there's seldom anything but more trouble in store for the U.S. and its economy
now. Yes, our valiant efforts were nice
while they lasted, for us and the world, but the reservoir, the bank and the
bag of good intentions are almost fresh out of goodies to fight the planet's
human ills, which continue to thrive and infest societies ruled by dictators,
poverty, illness and ignorance. The
right thing to do may already have taken a back seat to just do
something.
Yes, Syria's
Assad is a monster who gasses his own people, and the rebels are composed
significantly of Al Qaeda and also cannibals who have been witnessed to
rip out and eat the organs of Syrian soldiers whom they've killed. Now, if John McCain, Lindsey Graham, the
president and his supporters wish to put their children into uniform and send them
over to Syria to deal with this living horror movie, feel free.
Discovery of
sarin nerve gas in Syria -- and are we really certain exactly who released it, and did we help faceless antagonists along the way?
-- caused Obama to specify the situation as "a menace which must be
confronted." We might suggest that,
indeed, Mr. Obama's entire fraud of a presidency is a menace which must be
confronted in terms of economic failures, invasion of privacy to an extent
almost beyond comprehension, increasing use of the IRS as a billy club, health
legislation guaranteed to strangle rather than heal a system which was already
working pretty well, an expensive and cumbersome energy policy of sorts,
environmental legislation seemingly crafted by lunatics, executive orders
prepared as if Congress doesn't even exist, and regulation after regulation
peppered at all levels throughout government which serve to oppress, depress
and obfuscate via extensively required paperwork and agenda. Our stateside menace is Obama, and he needs
to be impeached. Meanwhile, he'll focus
our attention on other matters so as to remain squeaky clean and unnoticed
regarding what he has done to the American people and to the American spirit.
And he's going
to do everything he can to keep his word about that damned red line, in
hopes that history will regard him wisely for keeping his word.
Some wonder whether Saudi Arabia is pulling Obama's strings here, while others suggest an agenda from Israel.
Mr. Obama -- and
Hillary Clinton, let's never forget -- were significant influences upon the
"Arab spring" and all the hideous domino effects which sprung forward
as a result. Panic over death caused by
sarin gas in Syria? Lots of
murders? Well, one logically supposes
we'll perform "limited" bombing in Syria and then move on to North
Korea, Iran and China, other geo spots known for indiscriminate killing? Hey, whether nerve gas or bullets, death is
death. So where to after Syria?
Jesse Marcel,
Jr. dies: President Ronald Reagan declared, in
response to the Challenger space shuttle disaster, that the dead astronauts
"touched the face of God." We
might say the same about Jesse Marcel, Jr., who, at age 10, recalls holding
what he consistently and staunchly believed was a shred of alien technology --
a strange piece of something, some peculiar material imprinted with symbols
akin to an unknown language.
Extraterrestrial evidence? I
confess, Roswell was never my "thing," but that's only because I had
zero to do with researching the case. To
those researchers who pour their hearts, souls and money into establishing the
who, what, when and where of it all -- though the journalistic "how"
remains elusive to this day -- we must offer our sincere gratitude, for
otherwise the story and its historical legs might have remained buried. As for Marcel, whose military
father brought the material straight from the alleged crash site so his family
could see something likely never to be observed again, his credentials as both
a physician and military officer clearly portray him as somebody who knew. .
.something of note. Dr. Marcel, 76, was
found dead in his home on August 24. His
loss will be keenly felt by those who knew and worked with him. It's sadly true, time waits for no one.