{"id":876,"date":"2013-08-29T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2013\/08\/i-am-not-going-to-write-about-syria.html"},"modified":"2013-08-29T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T15:06:00","slug":"i-am-not-going-to-write-about-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2013\/08\/i-am-not-going-to-write-about-syria.html","title":{"rendered":"I am not going to write about Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Well, except for this one post. <\/p>\n

The situation really worries me.\u00a0 We attacked Iraq because we believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, in violation of UN Resolutions that effectively formed the cease-fire agreement after they attacked Kuwait.<\/p>\n

We attacked Serbia to get the Serbs to withdraw from Kosovo.<\/p>\n

We bombed Libya because of\u00a0some variety of humanitarian reasons.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re planning on attacking\u00a0Syria so that Obama can save face over his \u201cchemical weapons is a red line\u201d comment?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

And that despite the real risk that we end up replacing Assad with Al-Qaida?\u00a0 Or just end up more feckless than before, if we just have a couple plainly symbolic bombings?<\/p>\n

Well, I guess Obama doesn\u2019t have to strive for a Nobel Prize if he\u2019s already got one.<\/p>\n

[Additional irritation about the Syrian situation:\u00a0 a budding new blogger is supposed to comment on other blogs with links to one\u2019s own articles, but there\u2019s not much out there to link to today.\u00a0 National Review Online was all about Syria and I just can\u2019t do it \u2014 I just can\u2019t get myself to try to get involved in a conversation in which, ultimately, I\u2019m completely powerless about the outcome, and can\u2019t even imagine that I can make a difference.]<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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