A Mediterranean Battlefield - Syria

[Peter Lemkin]

The growing reports of radical Muslim Jihadists in Syria is not good...nor would be an external invasion to go along with the internal one [with non-indigenous elements]. It is really a mess now and my heart goes out to the average person who is in fear, lost loved ones - or soon will. Anyone calling for an 'Iraqi solution' has to be insane....need I go through the horrible history of what the USA and NATO did in Iraq?! [We had to kill the Nation and its People to save it - Feludja sums it up best - but was one of hundreds if not thousands of the same - over decades!]. In Iraq we set up a client state and displaced/killed much of its population - and destroyed most of its infrastructure except the oil fields. I fear the same will happen in Syria - though the Assad family is horrible too. It would take a Solomon to find a solution, at this point. Bill, I only ask you to add our own country to those much [if not most] in need of a 'Spring'. I think the Syrian uprising started organically, but has been hijacked - with those of good will likely still trying to fight on along with outsiders and hijackers. The government side certainly deserves no applause for the past or the present. What a mess - it likely will end very badly with most either dead or refugees for decades and Syria a client state - greatly weakened and sights set on Iran next.