Grab and Keel

With Kofi Anan announcing his intent to let his mandate, as “UN-Arab League Peace Envoy For Syria” expire on August 31, It’s clear the Syrian bunker is growing in depth and width.

While Al Jazeera is reporting today that we USAN’s have mandated 12 million for humanitarian aid, Reuters is reporting that the US State Dept. says our government has set aside 25 million for “non-lethal assistance” and another 64 million for humanitarian assistance.

NBC had unconfirmed reports on Tuesday that we had supplied air-to-air missiles to the Free Syrian Army, something, they deny. However, there are a multitude of groups operating in Syria, including al Qaeda. There are reports that President Obama secretly authorized clandestine operations.

It’s hard to stop a killing machine once you unleash it. There are so many reasons why.

We have been feeding ours for over a decade.   Our wartime economy, which we still refuse to recognize as such, combined with the evil mess Reaganomics and BushCo left us has impoverished many of us and generally reduced our quality of life.  Maybe al Qaeda takes comfort from that, I don’t know.

However, I read several years ago, a theory that the end of World War II truncated democratization in the Middle East. Some hold the viewpoint that the forces which propelled that war, remain to be and are being, worked through in the Middle East.  I don’t think we are going to stay out of the process, whether we call it “war” or not.