by Wilbur Witt
In the media swirl concerning Syria it becomes hard to sift the information, and misinformation to get to the facts. We know there was a gas attack and that a good amount of people died, including some children. Now that's a fact. Put that in the fact basket. We know that there are two sides to the conflict in Syria. There's the government, and then there are those who oppose the government. The opposition is composed of many factions, some Syrian, and some not so Syrian, filtering in from other areas to support the rebels. Some are referred to as terrorists. Let's define terrorist. A terrorist is someone who kicks your ass and doesn't care how he does it while you scream, "Foul!" You know, like the Confederacy. I dug back and read up on how this whole mess started. Apparently there were some protests against the Assad regime and he, upon seeing what else was happening in the Middle East, over reacted. One thing led to another and a protest became a conflict. Now we have a war.
Let me inject another fact here. If using chemical weapons is against international law, why is anyone allowed to even possess such weapons? If there IS a United Nations (which frankly there is not) shouldn't there be a consensus among the members that if any nation even has these things the members would instantly invade said nation and disarm it with no ceremony?
Now let's address just who used this weapon. The admitted owner of the gas is the regime. There's no question there. Put that in the fact basket. Now let's move to supposition. Let's say, just for speculation, the opposition had come upon a few barrels of Sarin gas. Now where would you use it? Would you use it against civilians, fighting on your side to promote some great political maneuver, and try to drag the United States into the conflict, or would you just gas the hell out of Assad's troops and turn the tide of the war? Moreover, if the more radical elements possessed this stuff, wouldn't they have gassed the New York subway system by now? The whole idea of radical Islam is to destroy the Great Satan, which is us! Now that supposition is not a fact, it falls more in the common sense basket. We just took an attack on the Boston Marathon from pressure cookers loaded with nails and firecrackers. Don't you think that if these people had poison gas they would have already figured a way to deploy it on us by now?
No, my belief is that Assad, having a pocket of resistance so near, thought he could pop a little gas in there and either not get caught, or would be ignored in the confusion of war. His assertion that he is winning the war, why should he resort to such tactics is about as strong as Batista enjoying a champaign toast as Castro enters town! Most likely that gas was deployed from government sources. The reason was that the government thought they could take out a pocket of resistance easy with little or no consequences.
Now it's question time. What will happen if we attack? Will it save the world from gas? Uh, no. If it should topple Assad's government will that end the war? Why sure! I mean, it ended the war in Iraq when we toppled THAT government, right? Oh, I'm sorry. The radicals are slipping in from where? Will the people that end up in control embrace us as friends and sell us gasoline at twenty five cents a gallon because they love us so much? Well, Libya is such a great tourist destination, right? Anybody up for a tour of the pyramids by the way? Maybe a Christian tour of Mecca?
What will China and Russia do. Bitch and rattle their rusty sabers. Iran, pretty much the same. I know I'm gonna get a bunch of letters telling me how powerful these numb nuts are, but I'm sorry to be the first one to tell you this, but for all of Putin's big talk he has a rust bucket Navy and China's not going to give one penny of profit up trying to protect a bunch of religious nuts that are doing them absolutely no good. You can put all that in the fact bucket, too.
Now, let's swing to the other side of this discussion. One thing that riles me is when the government has this so-called "evidence" of this or that, and want to go to,war, but they can't show us this evidence because we're basically a bunch of children and can't be trusted with the information. Show us one picture of Assad pushing the gas button, laughing with fiendish glee. Play us one audio tape of ANYONE in his government giving the order to deploy the gas. But no! That's all CLASSIFIED! We can't know that stuff.
What if, just what if the congress and the senate votes and says, "HELL NO!" Do you honestly think that the administration will not take some action anyway? If Obama shows restraint then I'm a blue nose gopher, and Frenchi says I can butter her butt, and call her a biscuit! We're gonna do it, ok? It would be wonderful, if after all these years we could show some sanity and rebuild America, but I've long since given up on that. God Bless the Republic of Texas!
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