OH BOY, SYRIA HERE COMES G.I. JOE!

(Kevin Baron, Los Angeles Times)

(Frazer Chronicle)

 

The next objective…..militarily for the United States might be Syria, does that surprise you, it really doesn’t me, I’ve been watching the activity there, and my old sniffer smells a U.S. rat…..the C.I.A. which has been training certain military aspects to battle whoever they are directed too by the agency.

 

Do you know anything about Syria…..well, I like many in the U.S. know little about the country, its people, economy, or most important…..in today’s world, the oil and natural gas reserves. Seems like we don’t go anywhere unless there’s the sweet smell of oil. Syria is not a major player in crude production, although the government is attempting to reinvigorate their search.

 

Syria was one of those Ottoman empires, till 1918, then French, then proclaimed the Kingdom of Syria in 1920, then the State of Syria under a French mandate in 1924. Then in 1930, established as the Syrian Republic, merging with the states of Jabal, Druze, and Alawites, was declared Syria in 1946 independence from France.

 

In September, 1961 recessed from the United Arab Republic, and finally in 1963 the Ba’ath party takes power and has given the country its first extended period of stability with regards to the country’s governmental proceedings.

 

There are 22,530,746 people living in Syria, the country’s gross domestic product was $107,831 billion in 2012, with a per capita income of $5,100. The Syrian area is in a word, old, with a traceable history to about 10,000 BC, and was one of the centers of Neolithic culture (pre-pottery), where agriculture and cattle breeding appeared for the first time in the world.

 

The country and its people have what one might call a long and illustrious history of human achievements, as well as a history of being dominated by invasions from the Arab world. The Canaanities, Phoenicians, and Arameants as part of the general disruption and exchanges associated with the Sea People. The Phoenicicians settled along the coast of Northern Canaan (Lebanon). Egyptians, Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians and Hittites variously occupied the strategic ground of Syria during this period, the land between their various empires being marshland.

 

NOW BEFORE WE GO TOO FAR

Let me make one thing clear, the above named peoples, or states, and those tribes or nations that occupied Syria are as foreign sounding to me as I’ll bet they are to you. Oh sure some of the words spark a memory of the Old Testament, but by and large I’m as much in the dark as you-all.

 

I included the above history for one reason, to possibly enlighten us all about the extreme age of the Middle Eastern world’s history. Some of the inhabitants of Syria can be traced back thousands of years…..and they don’t need Wal-Marts, or Targets to survive, they’ve been rolling along in their sedentary lifestyles for literally thousands of years.

 

Invasion to these people is a ho-hum deal, it’s like really, again, another invading people, “go ahead, get it over with already.” And then they go on about their daily mundane lives, and wait for the new invaders to get tired, or go broke…..and then go back to wherever it was that they came from, it’s in their blood.

 

For whatever reason, we simply don’t get it…..unless you figure Iraq is better off without Saddam Hussein, we invade for a multitude of reasons, attacking in the same time tested way of waging war, and forgetting that this is the 21^st century, and waging war has changed.

 

We as a nation, as a people, people that harbor a certain level of thinking with regards to a democratic society, and what can be derived from that society have yet to come to grips that democracy isn’t for everybody, and peoples around the world are hip to our devious plans!

 

HERE COMES THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS, AND THE GENERALS

Scholars and think tank people, humanitarian observers, people that are partial to particular elements of the Syrian nation all weigh in on what is going on in Syria today. Without a doubt, some of these people have the best of intentions at heart…..however they can muddy the waters of clear thinking on a foreign issue.

 

Whenever somebody hollers human rights, genocide, displaced war victims, people in Washington come out of the woodwork looking for photo-ops, catch phrases, and a baby or two to kiss. In short they are dangerous, they’re like a squeaky wheel, and we all know that a squeaky wheel gets the grease.

 

Syria has been operating under all kinds of regimes for thousands of years, and will continue until the final rapture, of that I have no doubt. Cooler heads need to take charge of the situation and our foreign policy.

 

In an open letter released yesterday, July 22, 2013, Joint Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey gave five options that the United States militarily could carry out in Syria’s civil war. Now General Dempsey seems like a good man, probably highly intelligent, with a wealth of military experience that speaks of his position, rank, and age.

 

However General Dempsey is…..a general in the military of the United States, and is answerable directly to the president of the United States. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, with little exception, military people do not have a good reason to duck or dodge an impending military situation, it’s kind of like shiver me timbers, and roll out the caissons!

 

The last time I checked, the United States was kind of war-weary, and in fact reeling from military stages in several different hot spots around the world. And that reeling sensation isn’t even addressing the loss of life or the U.S. treasury.

 

It’s the old standard of military activity:

 

a. train and equip

b. bring in U.S. military to oversee training now handled by the C.I.A.

c. air-strikes, missiles fired from outside Syria

d. no-fly zone

e. controlling Syrian W.M.D.’s

 

The costs, a mere $500 million to train, equip and bring U.S. soldiers, (300 to 3000) into safe areas to assist in the war making effort. The overall cost of the effort…..$1 billion dollars a month!!!!! Can I get a witness, how in hell can that be, could old General Dempsey really be serious…..I think so.

HAVE A NICE DAY!