Senator McCain in arguing this morning on N.P.R.
for a substantial military intervention in Syria cited President Obama's
advocacy of regime change two years ago (not referring to the 2012 election in
D.C.) as a reason for war. Because U.S. Presidents are not held to the standard
of papal infallibility (the Catholic Church vacated that position in self
long ago) it is o.k. for them to be wrong or to change their minds occasionally.
The precedent of being in agreement with something one has said before, as a
rationale for war isn't terribly persuasive.
One wonders if the punish Syria extra-judicially
movement has considered the problem of intervening in a religious, sectarian
war in behalf of the Sunni? Repeatedly Sect. Kerry has cited the moral evil of
waging chemical war on 'one's own people'. War upon anyone is bad enough, yet
who are 'one's people in the case of sectarianism in Syria?
Fundamentally the Shi'a-Alawite vs. Sunni is the
heart of the problem. If the U.S. acts decisively in behalf of the rebels it is
acting to reduce the Shi'a of Syria. Iran is the heart of the Shi'a today
though Ali was killed in Iraq. The historian Arnold Toynbee remarked that
religious wars are the worst and most protracted in that people will fight on
and on in defense of their faith. It requires overwhelming assault to defeat
popular religion, as occurred in Oregon recently at a commercial bakery because
of the homosexual hostile takeover of the institution of marriage.
In working to purge Syria of the Shi'a-Alawite,
and it does appear to that a purge would follow a Sunni rebel victory for their
are no Shi'a mosques in the Palestinian territories and few or none in Egypt,
Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in select Sunni nations, the Obama administration
would be making a fundamental change in the future of the Muslim political
world, one that is most likely ill-considered in Washington D.C.
Because the Obama administration is radical and
secularist on moral issue returning making changes such as developed in ancient
Rome so much that Cicero took acerbic note one suspects that the drift toward
perennial conflict with the Shi'a has something of a moral reform toward the
decadent post-modernism that disinterpretors of the meaning of Darwinism to
philosophy and religion purpose. If the U.S. Government were serious about
getting along with the Iranian Shi'a it could have patched up the Khomeini
revolution issues long ago.
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