Bombing Syria...for Some Unknown Reason

DON'T LOOK NOW, but apocalyptic Christian prophecy of the wildest sort may be coming true before our very eyes. Even as we speak, both Russia and the United States are dropping bombs on Syria, though its highly questionable whether either nation-state has the foggiest reason why, or any real knowledge of what or who their intended targets are. Bombing for the sake of bombing, its finally here, reincarnated at last from the rubble of Iraq, viet Nam, and Dresden When you think about it, you realize that, somehow, it just had to come to this. Russia and the United States are allies and enemies at the same time, just like they were back in World War Two, only this time, its even weirder and more complicated. Americans and Russians in large numbers are streaming into the newly created and self proclaimed Islamic State to be of assistance to it, while both nation-state empires declare it to be their enemy. But in Syria, both self proclaimed bastions of virtue are on opposite sides in the great Syrian civil War, a technicality which would, one think, eventually need to be worked out in order to move forward into a better, brighter tomorrow for all. Ironically, Syria is a much more ancient and civilized country than either Russia or America, both of which were defecating in their muddy village streets when Damascus was glowing with street lights and sewer systems. Nonetheless, here in the confused, politically complicated present its bombs away, courtesy two of the most confused and politically corrupt imperial machines of mass destruction the world has ever known, or is ever likely, if we are fortunate, to know again.