While our kinetic military operation proceeds in Libya, the crucial theater seems to be shifting to Syria – from the AP:
Gangs of young men, some armed with swords and hunting rifles, roamed Sunday through the streets of a Syrian seaside city, closing alleys with barricades and roughly questioning passersby in streets scarred by days of anti-government unrest.
The scenes in Latakia, a Mediterranean port once known as a summmer tourist draw, were a remarkable display of anarchy in what had been one of the Mideast’s most tightly controlled countries…
While getting rid of Gaddafi’s regime is a worthy object – and could have been done with ease three weeks ago – the greater threat in the Moslem world is from the Iranian/Syrian axis…and it must be noted that President Obama seems to have no inclination whatsoever to do anything about it. Indeed, Hillary Clinton absurdly claimed that Syria’s dictator is a “reformer”.
Not since the Carter Administration have we seen US foreign policy more confused – more weak and pointless, that is. Syria, the standing threat to Israel and Lebanon – the Iranian ally in the middle east – teeters on the brink of revolution which could only work to our advantage, and we’re doing nothing. In fact, less than nothing: we’re pledging in advance that we won’t intervene, at all.
Here’s the nightmare – we spend years bogged down in Libya either trying to leverage Gaddafi out of power or cleaning up the post-revolution mess while Iran and Syria maintain and increase their power…that is the course we’re on right now, and I hope we change it swiftly.
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