Butting In

IT STARTED about a year and a half ago, first in egypt, then spread to much of the rest of the arab world, the "arab spring", which resulted in a new government in egypt, oppression in the arab emirates, and protests in syria.

The protests grew, became riots, then turned into a civil war, which is ongoing, though you would never know it in america, where the media has lost interest. The syrian civil war will doubtless regain popularity in the united states when it inspires a new video game.

Americans should always be interested in civil wars, after all, the world paid close attention to ours. Of course, ours was particularly interesting and violent. The american civil war can be viewed as the second american revolutionary war, or, conversely, the american revolutionary war may be viewed as a civil war; take your pick.

President obama recently stated that although the U. S. currently has no intention of intervening in syria, all bets are off if assad (syria's beleaguered dictator) starts using chemical or biological weapons against his enemies, the "free syrian army".

Obama has drawn his "red line"; if assad crosses it, he's doomed to suffer at the hands of the american war machine. And let us give credit where credit is due; the united states may be hypocritical, self righteous, poorly guided, and aggressive, but, we know how to kill.

The largest collection of chemical and biological weapons in the world is owned by, you guessed it, the good ole U. S. of A. Likewise every other sort of weapon.  During the american civil war, the english, hoping for a confederate victory to ensure cotton imports, kept sending material help to the confederacy, though obviously not enough. The union had a reasonably effective naval blockade in place.

Abraham Lincoln was urged by some of his advisors to declare war on england due to the trouble on the high seas, but mr lincoln, ever the pragmatist, famously replied "one war at a time, boys".

Can you imagine the indignation of the americans had any foreign power become actively involed in our civil war, or even seriously threatened to? But no matter, if the united states chooses to get directly involved in syria, it will be, obviously, the right thing to do.

Bb

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