11-12-2012, 05:51 PM
Syria is known to have enormous amounts of highly lethal chemical and biological weapons. It really doesn't matter who uses them...any use will kill huge chunks of life - human and otherwise in such a relatively small country....and perhaps beyond. The whole thing is madness and the whole Middle East is in a very precarious situation [more than I can remember]. Add to that there are NO 'big powers' I trust and we have a formula for some very ugly scenarios. As a matter of fact, I can't see any really good ones - in Syria or any of the surrounding countries. What started out as an 'Arab Spring' could well [I hope not] descend into an 'Arab Winter'.....or worse. While there is plenty of blame to lay at the feet of many of those in power in the Middle east, much of the blame has to be born by those outside powers playing 'chess' with the region for decades....and still.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass