OBAMA: SOLVE SYRIA PROBLEM YOUR WAY

Obama is trying to promote democracy in the Middle East. This is the core of what we call the Arab spring. In this view, the Syrian people are fighting for the “right of self determination” in a country ruled by a dictator. They need the freedom to pursue their humanization along with the rest of us. Our president will make his decisions concerning military intervention with this long-range objective in mind.

  

However, Syria is in conflict and one again religion is at the center of war talk, which makes the task difficult. The idea that the Arab spring centers around democracy verses caliphate, monarchies, or other forms of dictatorships is becoming lost in the struggle of one Muslim sect trying to dominate another. An identifiable number of groups engaged in the conflict, which except for a small group of Christians, are all Muslims. This fact makes it difficult to understand the position of some of our Congressional Representatives. They seem to have a deep abiding hate for Muslims yet they are busy urging the President to take military action in Syria to save Muslim lives. Are we to judge that they love war more than they hate Muslims? Their position doesn’t really make much sense unless you reduce their argument to the idea that they really want to kill non Christians no matter what their political beliefs are. In this view, Graham and McCain want to look like tough guys and defenders of liberty but end up looking like aimless stupid because their positions do not make any sense.

As an army officer, in Iraq, a former Republican Congressman from Florida hated the Muslim prisoners he was interrogating so much that he was more concerned with hurting them because they were Muslims then he was in finding out if they were enemy combatants. The same attitude was expressed certain interrogators working in Guantanamo.  During the debate over Dick Cheney and water boarding, one congressional representative said that torture was OK because even if they didn’t know anything they deserved to be tortured.  Could this possible the basis these people want for our foreign policy?

The Republicans, which means they are for promoting or maintaining a U.S. lead hegemony, have an additional agenda. This is what they are referring to when they say they want when they use the cutesy phrase; they want Obama stop “leading from behind”. They want monopolistic power in the business world in Syria. Obama seems to want fair and honest business interest to win out; the business that offers the best deal for the natural resources and markets wins and America can easily win at that foreign trade game. It is not hard to understand why American business can win the market battle.

Then of course, there is Israel.  They do not want a hostile Lebanon-Syria-Jordan-Egypt on their boarder. That too is not hard to understand. However, what is hard to understand is how Christian right wing religious hate can join love of war to the point where it dominates peaceful business and Jewish state interests. If something is so illogical that it does not make sense, it is time to look at ones genes. Do we want to be at the top of the human peck order so badly that we are willing to kill massive number of people for killing massive numbers of people? It sounds stupid to me. I would rather seek a peaceful solution—my message to Obama is go for it your way.

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