Senator Kerry Has A 'Munich Moment' on Syrian Intervention

Secretary of State Kerry made N.P.R headlines again Saturday night detailing paradigm plans of attack on Syria's chemical war infrastructure. He made another bad analogy saying that this is a Munich moment such as occurred in 1936 with the appeasement of Hitler. President Assad of Syria doesn't seem likely to invade any foreign countries though as Nazi Germany did. It is the United State's President fomenting an attack on Syria spending weapons and quality military time costing possibly billions with dollars with e-dollars made real by Fed Chief Bernanke. With luck the U.S.A. won't experience the Reich's hyperinflation too.

It is challenging to find the language to describe America's traditionally ineffective, expensive and convoluted foreign policy as it applies to Syria. Below I will try to present the developing pattern of current policy. It is troubling that a government that cannot balance its own budget, design full employment or restore environmental health is the biggest fan of war. N.P.R. reported that Secretary Kerry spoke flawless French to the French and other Euros arguing for air attack. Very impressive-he looks French himself, yet in the language of his non-billionaire countrymen (generally) American English arguing for intervention he relies too much on historical clichés' using tunnel-vision logic on the Syrian conundrum.

If the Obama administration plans to enter the Twilight Zone in an attack on Syria consider that Nebuchanezzar II did long ago too Kicking the Assyrians out was a Biblical sort of political change for the region. Named for the god Nebu he trashed Ninevah in the 7th century B.C. and the Egyptian and Assyrian armies at the battle of Carchemish in 605 B.C.

In entering the historical fray and lining up for a possibly eschatological swing of things the Obama administration seems rash. Nebuchadnezzar IIhad a mission from God. It seems unlikely that the Obama administration has a call from that source.

It seems the U.S.A. works hard to develop worst-case investment in foreign conflict events. One would think that neo-cons are in the Obama camp along with the Harvard economic elite consolidating wealth. They require someone to blame first to attack later. War on the installment plan. What that doesn't do is implement proactive economic policy that could serving as a good example for ordinary people of the world.

The American government just is too narrow minded to lead in peace and prosperity in a positive social and economic direction. Instead it too commonly relies on getting ignorant and war for international relation problem solving. If the country targeted is not really too dangerous to us we can attack. If the nation is too dangerous or difficult to attack we let it go and let it develop nuclear weapons such as North Korea. That isn't a John Wayne at Guadalcanal sort of policymaking, neither is it a 'blessed are the peacemakers' approach. It is a blessed are the war makers for they shall have war policy of international relations. The Sunni have much of world oil supplies. Wall Street and Washington are drawn to that like moths to a light in the darkness of a swamp.

Well balanced international relations ought to start with a balanced U.S. national budget, elimination of vast public debt, full employment, stable population, high standard of living and a recovering ecosystem. We can take a lesson from John Lennon by changing his lyrics a little bit to understand the administration policy; War is the answer, you got to let it grow, you've got to let it show so we can keep playing those war games forever, making more wars out of those that have gone before... Shouldn't war crimes charges be filed in a war crimes venue instead of entry of the U.S.A. into a war it has been promoting for at least two years?

The Obama administration seems determined to advance the project of creating a facsimile of a Sunni caliphate from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Atlantic as soon as possible by bumping out the only non-Sunni nation besides Israel in the way Syria (with Lebanon a sort of a polysectarian society) for the present. Lebanon had the P.L.O. and Yassir Arafat living there eventually being forced to move to North Africa, before the Shi'a of Hezballah increased power. Al Qaeada cadre may find it easier to organize and travel through a Sunni caliphate.

If Syria becomes ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, the Shi'a nation that Washington D.C doesn't like, will be isolated and bereft of friendly non-Sunni power on its borders. Probably Washington insiders have calculated that ditching Assad and the Alawite will bring the Age of Aquarius to the south shore of the Mediterranean and help Europe adjust to Sunni power and influence. The French may need to learn to speak Arabic.

India too- that developed independence when the immanent prospect of a vast Muslim-Hindu war prompted the war-weary Brits to exit may find bilateral relations with Pakistan more challenging if a Sunni Caliphate ruled by Wahhabi royals develops simplifying empirical power flow iterations for terrorists.

It is good to know that the Obama administration's drive to boot Assad and other non-Sunni  sectarian governments from power in North Africa and the Middle East say the Syrian wr must conclude through  a negotiated political settlement such as worked for the U.S.A. in Vietnam. The Paris peace talks were very cool. Everyone spoke French- Ho Chi Minh worked in Paris as a waiter in youth. A Sunni Caliphate will bring terrorists together under one orthodox Islamic political hegemony. Salifist and Wahhabist drifts toward intolerance of Christians and Jews and tourism in Saudi Arabia could evolve in different directions. The end of the Assad regime must bring visions of new market sales throughput and sugar plum fairies to the White House and Wall Street.

The homosexual elite of Boston seem like the administration's special advisors comparable to neocons lobbying the Bush II White House. President Obama's evolution of leadership may have a paradigm expecting Saudi Arabia's military to tolerate homosexual marriage and allow women to enter the ministry of the Koran to former mujahideen and mufsidoon that will repent their intolerance and lapses into use of hate speech. In a race to the top education program for Muslims of the Caliphate national policy usually regarded as decadence could be thought of as progress along with vast national debt requiring only broadcast media conditioning of the masses for making things hunkie dorrie.

Bombing Syria to bring peace and war-bucks to defense contractors is a giant leap for big brother government. As it is unlikely that a bombing mission will remove all Syrian chemical weapons-even a few gallons could kill many thousands used carefully, and only a Syrian capability of using chemical weapons against a conventional military force attacking in large numbers might be done though its unlikely that any large conventional military force besides the United States might attack Syria, the object of ending the threat of chemical attacks on civilians in Syria doesn't seem like a mission that can accomplished with a bombing 'to degrade the ability of the Syrian government to wage chemical war'. Since a basic rule of war is like that of a syllogism, or dictum de omni-the premises must add up to the conclusion, the logic of the administration seems faulty.

What seems lost in the hurricane of war planning activity by the administration is that vote by the Senate and House to support a quick affordable chastisement of Assad's military or to demure. Evidently the vote was just make-work for a Congress that hasn't anything better to do anyway. To keep them in practice in case they need to pass meaningful legislation one day when they least expect it is an executive responsibility. A good example of selective law enforcement upgrade by the President-just get the congress to waste time on resolutions to-be-ignored as well as laws.

Fuzzy Logic in Chess Patterns and Politics

Fuzzy logic instead of incomplete, precise logic seems generally a good idea sometimes. I guess it's comparable to describing atoms moving around in clusters as molecules instead of writing up quarks and everything-too much math for the circumstances. Not even tablet computers do that yet. Maybe there is a photo app for chess pattern choices that's in the public domain?

Kingscrusher made a  video example of using patterns instead of just calculation analyzing a game between Magnus Carlsen and Luke McShane.

In  general pattern analysis is used by good historians yet these days not too much in politics and macro-economics with any good effect. Good political leaderships needs to look at the movement of the woods and the health of the forest as well as individual trees.

Philosophy of Language-Video;The Impressionist Teleology of a Language

Gary C. Gibson reads a philosophy of language essay in his philosophy blog about words. Voice-over video of S.E. Alaska the context is existential analysis in reference to absolute truth (The Lord Jesus Christ) as well as the impressionist teleology of a language-Universe where words are pointillist, statistical configurations of meaning.

Senate Democrat Foreign Relations Comm. Vote For Starting (Limited) War

Just three Republicans voted for a military attack on Syria in the vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. They were Senators Flake, McCain and Corker. The largely partisan vote had loads of hawkish Democrats voting to roll the dice on expanding the conflict and chaos in Syria. Those Democrats were Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Sens.  Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) , Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Christopher Coons (D-Del.), Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). 

Evidently with the war scheduled to wind down in Afghanistan for the U.S. military in 2014 the Democrats are looking for another place to beginning spending billions of dollars for war. Consistent with Obama policy of enriching the rich on Wall Street in order to concentrate wealth and develop a better, more effective global plutocracy, increasing the public debt and letting the plutocracy pull the strings on federal budget priorities can be serviced through foreign wars that don't produce much of benefit to Americans.

When the U.S. electorate is a sycophant of a government effectively bought and paid for by the Plutocracy the military can be exploited as a tool for implementing plutocratic global policy objectives. Secretary of State (Heinz) Kerry could not possibly even seek war crimes charges against the Assad regime instead of U.S. vigilante action, because that might not bring a regime change sought by his Plutocrat confreres.

Language Philosophy; Truth, Falsehood, Half-Truths and Statistical Strings

Words are like statistics; symbols in sounds and scratches in order conveying impressions and meaning to-others and for-one-self. A good post-modern for the philosophy of language and truth values context still has room for the existence of truth phenomenally though letters, phonemes, morphemes, and larger language structures are regarded as statistical structures with appearances in discrete orders conveying phenomenally associated meaning.

If language is like a realm of statistical, existential tools for data transfer it's values for users are comparable to statistics and data used by scientists in order to describe experience, perception and functions of systems. Also as in science data values have meaning in relation to the construction where they occur. The meanings vary in relation to the context of the application.

The value of language isn't found within an implicit truth or falsehood of words but in the art of their use and construction. The Lord Jesus Christ may be the Truth-in-itself yet that can't be said of anything else. While liars will not inherit the kingdom of God implicitly failing to understand the Truth in their unbelief, in the secular world there isn't a Platonic truth-in-itself that can be perceived or not inherently in word-objects.

Each user of language is a word artist experiencing a vast impressionist four-dimensional lexicon that is malleable and particularized with the user's own values and understanding. Yet like a scientist the user of language need be always aware that his or her use of language is their own responsibility and for-themselves they must determine the use and value of words as true or false in relation to suppositions given about them. A scientist needs to test and verity data and test the criterion of use of the data and so must language users have an implicit skepticism about the validity of words. At the least, words can be used in non-unique contexts with different values, can be interpreted by differing users with differing meaning and inevitably remain a phenomenal tool for the art of communication.

Words have no inherent capacity for harm. Words may be used harmfully yet generally one of two conditions needs to prevail for that to occur. One is the intent of some real individual to do harm to another or others; in that case it is the bad will that is the cause of harm and the words simply a device for getting that done.  The second source of harm done through words is just misunderstanding by the user interpreting word meaning.

For an example if a paragraph has description of how to deploy a lifeboat and escape global warming and one that reads the instruction in a second language misinterpreting the instructions thinking it says to scuttle the boat instead of launch it, following the instructions would result in harm.

Jean Paul Sartre wrote a tome named The Critique of Dialectical Reason in which he elaborated upon a theme in Being and Nothingness where the social dialectic of interaction among factory workers was considered from the point of view of several individuals experiencing the existential context. Language too is a social dialectic to which each individual has the ability to say No to anything. Mumbo Jumbo, god of the Congo may put a hoo-do on you, yet it is the ill will and actions rather than words that do the harm.

It was the executioners of Auschwitz and the ill will of Joseph Mengele and others that did the harm rather than simply the words. Words without substantive action attached to them in some way tend to be less even than meaningless symbols. An ancient untranslated text has meaning only because of it's potential for translation and value about the culture it was produced in. Otherwise except for being an enigma it would be merely an interesting object of art even one without potential for meaningful translation generated perhaps randomly by a computer.

Users of language are recognized with a utilitarian valuation for the accuracy and meaning content value as well as for the tone and method of delivery such as one might associate with singers. Language generators with accuracy and less dissimulation than the norm are of more practical value for many and preferred in several contexts by language receivers and generators.

A language universe of words as statistical units with the potential for infinite variety of group formation and meaning values may be something like a sunrise that can be viewed by billions of people a little differently from one another with or without similar filters, points of view or space-time facts. In language however each sunrise is constructed by the language users albeit with much presumptive text and structure inserted by convention. For human beings though, the language use is always live and subjective.

Kerry & Hegel Want Punitive Preemptive Missile Attack on 'Pandora's Box' in Syria

Secretary of State Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hegel have argued further for military assault on the government forces of President Assad of Syria saying that to fail to do so would open Pandora's box (of chemical weapons, biological and nuclear weapons and so forth). One could infer thus that to attack Pandora's box will release the contents in an incinerated and contained form somewhat analogous to the Fukushima Nuclear plant containment efforts. Inn that case freezing the dirt with advanced technology placed underground will work best beside just dumping the excess radiation into the ocean that is a kind of building up global Pandora's box.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/03/kerry-hagel-testify-on-syria/

I am still considering the 'red line in the sand' that was crossed in Syria by the use of chemical weapons two weeks ago. One makes a red line I suppose with chalk, blood or red tide-its a little bit of an English as a second language sort of language use that American diplomats like when not using cool military jargon like 'force delivery packages'. Setting out a goal like red lines in the sand for terrorists to meet that want to draw the U.S.A. into the conflict is probably like announcing an exit date from Afghanistan enabling Taliban to better coordinate terror activities on their planner's calandars, yet at least its a nice color selection for exteriors.

Maybe if the Obama administration had said if x number opf civilians are killed with chemical weapons we will launch 100 cruise missile at 1 million dollars each at Syrian units we don't think support our Middle East agenda it would have been a better deterrent. Since the first deterrent didn't work, if it was the Assad forces that delivered the fatal Sarin nerve agent to a presumably Sunni populace killing 1500, it is not certain that the conditioned response punishment will be an effective deterrent.

The administration in Washington D.C. has yet to say why the chemical attack on Syrian Sunni civilians-if that's what they were, was militarily useful. Did it help win the battle against the rebels or was it an emotional sort of thing in an inhuman war with rebels sponsored in part by Washington D.C. for the past two years?

Sectarian vs. Government Issues in Syria, Washington D.C., Oregon

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/03/todd-american-dispatch-christian-bakery-closes-after-lgbt-threats-protests/

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.

Secretary of State Kerry and Syria; War Crimes and Deterrence Policy

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry has made statements about chemical attack and deterrence recently in order to draw in public acquiescence on a military strike against Syria. The administration seems eager to jump into the middle of a Shia/Alawite vs. Sunni conflict for 'national interest' as well as deterrence of hypothetical future chemical attacks.

Deterrence of WMD's was of course a cold war staple. The policy of mutually assured destruction seemed effective. SALT talks led to limits on nuclear weapons development and war didn't occur. The same strategies are not used by the Obama administration today.

Cold war era deterrence policy was largely bi-lateral deterrence between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In the present circumstance wherein Syria and the United States have no conflict at all and where Syria has not presented a threat to the United States with chemical weapons the overwhelming conventional and nuclear power of the United States is regarded as the deterrent; if you use da chemical weapons we put da hit on yuse. Can America as the schoolyard enforcer be an effective deterrent to chemical weapons use by governments engaged in civil war as defenders against international terrorists and internationally sponsored rebels, some of which are supported financially and militarily by the U.S. administration?

In error Sect. Kerry enumerated heads of state that have used chemical weapons citing Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein. While Adolph Hitler is a convenient bad white guy blamable for about anything evil in war, he did not use chemical weapons. Adolph Hitler hated chemical weapons ending world war one in hospital in recovery from chemical weapon attack. Hitler had a no-use of chemical weapons policy for the Second World War because of fear of an attack with chemical weapons by the allies.

A better list of leaders that used chemical weapons might include Saddam Hussein, Lloyd George (British P.M.), Woodrow Wilson, the Kaiser and probably General Tojo or the Emperor for the Japanese in China. Instead of leadership deterred by the threat of conventional military attack for deterrence it is perhaps the threat of reciprocal chemical attack that defeats conventional military forces that is most effective chemical deterrent policy. The better deterrent for political leader's use against limited chemical weapons use might be assured war crimes trials and conviction.

If President Assad ordered and developed the chemical attack on a Syrian suburb killing as many as 1500 people and a court of law confirms that even if he is tried in absentia a bounty of ten or twenty million dollars and sanctions might be an effective way to secure his arrest. It is not certain that Syrian Government forces perpetrated the attack instead of unknown political p.r. martinets since its so easy to use chemical weapons without aircraft or anything more than aerosol sprayers and a weapons officer in a camouflaged chemical protection suit.

With so much of world opinion against unilateral U.S. intervention in Syria on behalf of the rebels even if the premise of punishing the Assad military for use of chemical weapons in the Damascus attack and for deterrence of future use executing a military strike could do harm to the concept of democratic populism and rule of law. Containment of the proliferation of chemical weapons attacks is important, yet the question of how that can be done most effectively isn't plain. War crimes trials can punish political criminals ordering chemical attacks, and if chemical weapons aren't of a certain scale and nature that they comprise a substantial military tactic it is dubious that intervention would reduce the potential for conflict much or prevent loss of life. With nearly 100,000 killed in the Syrian civil war so far and many of those civilians the loss of 1500 adds 1.5% more to the casualty numbers. It is all a tragic loss of life and one that the United States had the opportunity not to encourage by calling for regime change in Syria for nearly two years already.

President Obama has given the U.S. Congress the opportunity to debate and reject or approve a mission to launch tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of cruise missiles and additional air assault delivered force packages to select Syrian targets. Nothing has been said about war crimes trials.

A German friend and mentor of Albert Einstein,  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber was the inventor of chemical weapons for the First World War. The inventor standing on a hill observing the first use against British troops was horrified by the effectiveness of chlorine gas. Even so during the First World War chemical war became the norm with deaths rolling up numbers as fast as McDonalds cheeseburgers sold. 

Politicians were happy enough to use chemical weapons or machine guns when it was necessary. As a tool of war and with war as politics through other means it is important to keep in mind with a little skepticism belief about phenomenal illegal weapons use and political string pulling for and against intervention.

G series of nerve agents were discover by Dr. Gerhard Schrader 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin

Reich minister Herman Göring said; "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is the easy part. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Secretary Kerry and President Obama have warned about Syrian Government chemical weapons finding their way into the hand of terrorists such that they could be a danger to the U.S.A. as a reason to intervene in the Syrian civil war. Yet it is the development of the war with U.S. support and the threat that Syrian Government chemical weapons might fall in to the hands of Sunni rebels that is the threat. Al Qaeda and most suicide bombing terror organizations for the past twenty years were generally Sunni sectarians. Like the distribution of loose nukes from former Soviet stockpiles after the fall of the Soviet Union the fall of the Assad regime might through into the middle east the Pandora's box of chemical weapons to a new generation of terrorists that have perhaps already developed plans to snag particular Sarin supplies like vultures circling over potential prey.

A better road to deterrence is simple creation of a very positive social economy and recovering ecosphere that political leaders internationally want to emulate. With the increase of the Internet access for the planet a recovering ecosphere with new economic practices reducing the concentration of wealth is a far better direction of travel than the concentration of wealth, impersonalization of a broadcast media owned by a plutocracy and authoritarians and expansion of non-renewable economic practices to the entire world. Democracy can be a better political method for enlisting full social support for individualism against the collectivism of corporate and communist assaults on free enterprise and free speech when gangs of the powerful make individual efforts futile. Limiting the size of corporations and the number of corporations anyone can invest in at three would also be a useful development course for preempting chemical weapons attacks in local civil wars by preempting the wars and dysfunctional social environment of poverty and pathos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_indicted_in_the_International_Criminal_Court

Patriots Cut Tebow; Eagles Next Stop?

Former Heisman trophy winning quarterback Tim Tebow was cut today by the New England Patriots. That creates the prospect that the Philadelphia Eagles may sign the tough running QB to share running around or over defender duties with Michael Vick.

Looking for his fourth NFL team Tebow may find a good fit in an offense that plans to rely on injury prone running quarterback Michael Vick on every play. The task of being a running quarterback in a passing league is harder than ever before with large high speed, defenders. With two tough running quarterbacks it might work for a year or three.

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/ap-source-tim-tebow-cut-patriots-20126567

U.S. Vigilante Justice or War Crimes Tribunal for Syria Chemical Attack?

President Barrack Hussein Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have made it clear that the U.S. will not let Syria go unpunished for the chemical attack on a Damascus suburb that Sect. Kerry says killed more than 1400 souls. The U.S. Government seems set upon a course of cruise missile attacks of what some would regard as vigilante justice outside of the context of International War Crimes courts. Evidently the administration logic goes that Courts of Criminal Law are no justice at all and only vigilante justice by the strong can be swift and certain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23906913

Most AMericans oppose military intervention in SYria. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/us-syria-crisis-usa-poll-idUSBRE97T0UO20130830 yet President Obama sems determined to pursue limited military vengenance in order that Syrian leader Assad 'can't get away with it'. One infers that the attorney-President regards judgement by an Internal War Crimes court as no justice at all so Assad would get away with it without a cruise missile attack upon his interests.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE97K0EL20130830  Obama-Syria can't get away with it

While President Obama has just ordered the U..S. Government to no longer prosecute recreational use of ganja across the 50 states and has supported homosexual marriage recognition in federal law he has little confidence in international war crimes courts evidently. Perhaps he should seek to reinforce that institution, except of course U.S. Presidents seem to prefer to be outside the law themselves or at least not subject to its judgement on possible war crimes for-themselves.

Secret. of State Kerry said in effect that the 'who we are' point does not allow American leaders to tolerate war crimes on the innocent such that we cannot help but intervene. Starting with F.D.R. doing little to help the Jews in Germany during the Second World War through using agent orange in Vietnam and with plenty of civilian casualties from a number of causes through to modern times with hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan as the U.S. government pursued dubious policy goals and while the U.S. sat on its hands in the genocides of Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur the ability of U.S. administrations to turn a blind eye to genocide and democide when convenient-as when 50,000 Iraqi civilians were dying annually during the Clinton era sanctions is demonstrably untroublesome. What is different about the 1400 deaths in Syria that is evident is the vast financial value of regime change with the hostile takeover value immediate.

In pursuing vigilante justice as a partisan power-for the U.S. has egged on the rebels to increase effort for two years, the U.S. administration needs to be careful not to appear to perpetrate aggressive war through proxies for-themselves. Why is it that legal means cannot be used to prosecute war criminals and vigilante remedies for war crimes are better?

Sarin Fog of War-Claims & Counter-Claims in Syrian Chemical Attack

While the British Parliament has voted not to support military reprisal against the Assad Government, the Assad Government has supporters that have produced video of rebels with alleged chemical weapons. Because VX and Sarin require only small quantities to produce fatality it is credible that anyone with access internationally to the lethal nerve agent could have used the stuff over the background of conventional rocket attacks further adding a fog of death to the fog of war.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23892783 Cameron Loses Vote to Intervene Militarily

http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/video-shows-rebels-launching-gas-attack-in-syria/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAD7Aw3VWl0 Casualties of Damascus suburb chemical war

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/29/syria-iran-retaliation-threats-not-empty/2726493/

It would be good if experts commented on such particular weapons and video yet propaganda and counter-propaganda isn't rare in war for power and public opinion. Legal means for enforcing international bans on use of chemical weapons should be resolute and enforced after the war is over as war crimes proceedings. Direct intervention to safeguard human life from theoretical additional chemical attacks probably would need to follow direct evidence of the intention to perpetrate further attacks by any protagonist in the conflict rather than as an immediate reaction to the existing historical use in a Damascus suburb.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE97K0EL20130821

What is the Financial Value of Syria? Auction It to End the Conflict?

The question of what a country like Syria would sell for on the open market is probably relevant. One wonders if there are financial reasons why Syrian rebels and the 'Friends of Syria' are motivated to take over.

I have no idea how one would calculate the value of Syrian real estate, of the headwaters of the Euphrates and control of the flow of water, the buildings, various military assets and so forth, yet it must be a few billion dollars at least. Would the Assad regime be better off agreeing to list and auction of Syria to the highest bidder at ebay and move out if the offer meets minimum reasonable standards of appraised value?

An impartial highest bidder buyer of Syria could have international law enforcement on his side, and I suppose he might agree to lease certain properties to the Assad regime and even to provide law enforcement services. Alternatively President Assad could make Syria the first officially corporatist state and simply list the nation on the New York Stock Exchange and invite investors at the I.P.O. As a corporate state the government could be run by and for the plutocracy and civilians casualties that develop with a hodge podge of proxy terrorist actors implementing the will of global martinets might become de trop.

If the Syrian Government is Bumped Out, Where Would the Survivors Go?

What would happen to Syria and the region if the Assad government were to be put down by international force is evidently a current events topic.

 http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/28/20232943-what-happens-after-a-strike-on-syria-it-depends-on-how-far-the-us-goes?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=1

Some on thinking along the lines of chemical and explosives weapons proliferation. Others wonder if the Alawite might retire to Iran and become a new minority in greater numbers. Yet it is reasonable to consider that the Alawite might seek to upgrade their living status with waterfront property and the Lebanese highlands perhaps with hegemony over adjoining areas of Syria.

I believe one possibility is that Syrian government personnel might flee to Lebanon and expand the Hezballah presence perhaps converting that state into a new, armed and radicalized synthetic Shia-Alawwite state while Syria would be taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood and those farther to the right. Prince Bandar bin Sultan-former ambassador to the U.S. and a member of the global plutocracy has ideas about it. As a Sunni state affiliate under the influence of the Wahhabi and Saudi royals it is uncertain that it would be more stable that it was before the civil war started.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/us/02aspen.html?_r=0 Bandar's home sold to John Paulson for $49 million

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-27/meet-saudi-arabias-bandar-bin-sultan-puppetmaster-behind-syrian-war Bandar bin Sultan offers to buy billions of Russian arms, Putin demurred

Global fracking may have altered the timing of the Hilbert Curve on world peak oil production and combined with a transition to ecospherically less harmful electro-magnetic transport Saudi oil wealth power may stabilize rather than increase proportionally. Some of course wondered if U.S. interest in Persian Gulf oil in the era before fracking led to mid-east policy that favored regime change in Iraq.

Fact Checking Sect. Kerry's 'Moral Compass' Speech

Secretary of State Kerry said that anyone that believes Syrian rebels would use nerve agent on civilians instead of the government should check their 'moral compass'. Yes it may be true that a government rather than citizens might be motivated to victimize so many generally, yet in the case of an international legion of terrorists from across the Sunni world we cannot be so certain.

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23883427

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/world/middleeast/syria.html?_r=0

Al Qaeda is active in the Syrian conflict as well as other terrorist groups and there are not known to be recalcitrant over creating civilian casualties. One's moral compass may point to the World Trade Center 9-11-2001 as well as the Pentagon as examples of terrorist attacks on civilians. With the largely Sunni development of suicide bombs in the Middle East that has proliferated across the world mostly targeting civilians it is difficult for a moral compass to ignore that direction. Thousands and thousands in Iraq were killed by suicide bombings and very likely terrorist groups exploiting utilitarian and pragmatic rules would decide that sacrificing a few thousand civilians to get the United States to hand victory to them would be worth the cost.

It is also possible that some terrorist groups don't really care so much for Syrians since they aren't from Syria. It is rather instructive that Sect. Kerry has so much respect for the moral compass of terrorists that he does not consider it possible that they could get and use nerve agent on civilians in Syria, yet I am not so sure myself.

When competent and complete investigation of the cause of the use of nerve agent in the Damascus suburb is present then direct legal action with international force ought to be taken. Pitching horseshoes for causus belli of interventionist conflict isn't so good after the fact if it turns out the approximate and uncertain reason for entering into a non-proximal to U.S. interest conflict was wrong.

http://news.yahoo.com/kerry--u-s--will-respond-to-%E2%80%98moral-obscenity%E2%80%99-of-syria-massacre--193453624.html

Sect. Kerry is of a billionaire family that is a member of the global plutocracy. They tend to view the world through their own values of where what is good for-themselves is good for the poor and middle class. Russia has about 75 billionaires with a GDP of only 1.2 trillion dollars. It is understandable that President Putin has found it tough to reign in an incipient oligarchy. Public interest requires that government look out for the 150 million non-billionaire Russians as well as to serve the very few. The U.S.A. has more than 400 billionaires and China about 100. These are very influential people in business and politics that may preclude political developments that would tax or conflict with their class interests of collecting rents and consolidating wealth. Too often the environment is not protected, conserved or restored because of the influence of oligarchs.

Sect. Kerry finds civilian casualties in Syria from chemical weapons a 'moral obscenity' yet to those wound and killed by explosives and conventional weapons to a similar extent the difference between non-obscenity and obscenity is rather vague. For some all casualties of war are the obscenity rather than those killed by a particular kind of weapon.

War crimes and conventions defining war crimes do exist and respect for rule of law on those international agreements should be used instead of kangaroo court edicts by the most powerful that may or may not have a record of trustworthiness. If it becomes evident that a plain and substantive use of chemical weapons is the real policy of the Syrian or any other government in an existing war than there ought to be real time to react. That standard has just not been met in Iraq, and it is wrong to stipulate vague standards that anyone may try to get under or frame up to meet in order to precipitate international intervention of one side.

Watching the war may make Sect. Kerry feel a little like an N.F.L. referee that should intervene whenever he sees a foul. Yet that paradigm is perhaps a wrong perspective by which to view world events and the Syrian civil war. It is at any rate a little uncomfortable to consider such a policy if the U.S.A. were not the most powerful nation militarily on Earth considering the intervention. What if it was China choosing where and when to intervene and what sort of government to depose?

Syria and The Logic of Intervention Over VX or Sarin Deaths

After the death of several hundred people in a suburb of Damascus probably by contact with nerve agent calls for instant U.S. intervention in the Syrian civil war on behalf of the rebels have arisen even as the Syrian government has allowed U.N. chemical weapons to investigate the site of the event. The U.S. navy has moved warships closer offshore Syria in preparation for a possible cruise missile attack on that country as if the U.S.A. is the world's policeman.  Some are anxious to remove Assad and move custody of the trove of nerve agent to more reliable hands such as a new Muslim Brotherhood led Sunni government of Syria or get rid of the stock altogether by dispersing it around the middle east and North Africa to ad hoc Al Qaeda terror associates. Who can say? We can be sure that if Armageddon were to actualize the problem would not be comparatively substantive.

Policemen are not generally judges yet should be good investigators. Investigating the alleged rocket attack on a Syrian suburb that delivered nerve agent is just getting started. Calls for launching a war instantly as if the Poles had attacked Germany again or as if Saddam Hussein was readying to launch his nuclear weapons on New York or the North Vietnamese navy has attacked American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin bring a certain measure of familiar incredulity to citizens distrusting U.S. government credibility on such issues. Some people in government never want to hesitate with second thoughts and miss the chance to leap into the righteous glory of war upon puny powers evolving the future with a roll of the dice. And that without a clue about what a post-Assad Syria would be like in this case. Maybe it would only cost two or three billion to rebuild Syria as it would Iraq according to neo-con estimates.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23844643#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Nerve agent is in effect a very concentrated insect poison. It is fairly easy for governments to manufacture and there is a lot of it around. The former Soviet Union probably left oceans of old artillery shells full of it in its former Republics. It does not stretch the imagination much to consider that Al Qaeda or another Sunni covert op could have acquired a cup of VX, GA or GB to use in the Syrian conflict as a way to get the U.S. military to win the war for them.

A cup of VX could kill a thousand people if optimally use as a vaporized. There are numerous ways of delivering VX from a pressurized spray canister hidden under a burka or placed in a low-flying quiet drone aircraft like a wraith painted black flying through the evening to disperse death. So even if there is are rocket remnants on site and even if there are traces of nerve agent associated with it. It should be plain that the rocket actually was the delivery vehicle of the nerve agent and not contaminated post hoc before proceeded to step two.

Step two would be finding an answer to the logical question of who it was in the Syrian Government ordered chemical a weapon to be launched? Was the order to use nerve agent one time on a particular civilian concentration a decision made by the Assad chain of command or was it a volunteer selection by a rebel sympathizing commander trying to bring U.S. intervention down upon the Assad Government forces?

Another question for Americans is that of intervention at all. Why should the U.S. government be quick to enter foreign wars on one side or the other when neither has attacked the United States of America? Neither should the U.S. government be a slow dupe easily led by plotters getting the bull to charge where they like to do their killing for them.

Syria does not yet seem much of a threat to the U.S.A. or N.A.T.O. members though an attack on Syria making the government more desperate could perhaps lead to unforeseeable consequences in the protracted development of chaotic conflict in Syria the Obama administration supported from the start. If the Assad government did launch the chemical weapon time to prosecute that regime's bad actors in the future probably will exist. I

Democrat Congressman (of N.Y.) Eliot Engall spoke out recently urging the administration to expedite attack on the Assad Government and bypass the slow legal machinery of the U.N.. He cited humanitarian and national interest reasons in promoting conflict enhancement. Even so it seems a bad idea.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57600036/on-syria-intervention-lawmakers-find-strange-bedfellows/

If the orgasm of intervening cruise missile blasts occurs the aftermath will not necessarily be development of good fruit of peace and prosperity Syria. France, the former colonial power has also urged intervention. It would be good if the French, British and other interventionists could pay for and enact military assaults against Syria for-themselves and for others concerned around the world about the developments in the Syrian war without U.S. participation for a change. The Obama administration should not be the designated hit man of special interests.

The basic concern internationally when chemical war incidents occur ought to be containment and later prosecution of particular individuals that decided to use chemical weapons in the world court. Actual decisive intervention to alter the course of war as a punishment for an alleged use of chemical war weapons as a minor element of war tactic rather than as a primary methodical approach to conducting war would seem to wrong. That is non-substantive use of chemical weapons in war would seem a cause for post-war prosecution of perpetrators by international war crimes courts whereas if chemical weapons are used in order to decisively win a war that might be a valid reason for international intervention contingent upon if the international body intervening likes or dislikes the protagonists in the war. For instance if Australians had used chemical weapons on the Nazis during World War Two (they didn't) the other allies would not have intervened on behalf of the Nazis to make the conflict fairer.

A civil war is a bloody thing and in the modern context where foreign volunteer warriors and terrorists by the thousands actively involve themselves and where a host of 'friends of Syria' have provide weapons and other material for war in addition to bucket-loads of cash the impartiality of intervention is hardly credible.

Instead of choosing who the winners and losers are in foreign conflicts not concerning our allies with copious cruise missiles and carpet bombing because of the orgasmic military pleasure of killing with a pretension of righteousness the U.S.A. should be cool on war and invest in building peaceful, renewable economic methods at home and abroad that employ the poor and restore the decaying planetary ecosphere too health with liberty and tigers for all.

Voter Photo I.D. Cards- The Better Security Upgrade for Democracy

Digital photography produces near zero-cost pictures hence using digital photographs and face recognition systems at voting booths would be a way for easy, security verification of individual identity. State election officials when registering a voter could make a free photo voter I.D. for a voter that he or she could present on voting day to election officials. The election system could also make a face scan with a camera to verify the voter's picture stored in the election files before stepping into the voting booth. With such simple, low, low cost technology available to confirm and secure voter photo identity it makes little sense to fail to defend the integrity of voting as the prerogative of citizens. A photo on a voter I.D. card is no more harmful than a photo on a driver's license.

Adequate voter I.D. to defend against voter fraud is not an effort to restrict voter rights or turn back the clock to Jim Crow days before the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Some uncreative politicians doomed to repeat the past might wish to persuade voters that having voter photo I.D. or photo I.D. on a driver's license is an effort by segregationists to send blacks back to the plantation. I think that's not so. The reasons that some black politicians can't get beyond half-century old ways of thinking are probably the same reason some white politicians keep coming up with ancient non-renewable, unsustainable economic policy for the U.S.A. (they just aren't the brightest bulbs illuminating creative darkness.)

If M.L.K. had been speaking at the commemorative half century observance of the 1963 march on Washington D.C. he would likely have expressed an optimistic paradigm for reforming and restoring the U.S. economy such that full employment would result. He would have been unlikely to dwell on amorphous allegations of racial discrimination.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ar7kf/papers/PR_QJE_TAB_FIG.pdf

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1060772.files/Has%20the%20U.S.%20Finance%20Industry%20Become%20Less%20Efficient%20On%20the%20Theory%20and%20Measurement%20of%20Financial%20Intermediation.pdf

There was no ambiguity about the Jim Crow south's racial discriminations. Politicians didn't need to cook up baloney incidents or find a George Zimmerman to try to lynch for defending his life. When Rosa Parks moved to the front of the bus it wasn't an action against a vague or imagined segregation policy. M.L.K. took issue with the meaty substance of political issues of his day with optimism and an interest of the rights of mankind. In today's egression toward the developing Plutonomy with concentrated wealth for the top .1% and 30% of Harvard grads in the financial and banking services seeking to extract money rather than create new ecologically sustainable economic policy good for all much of the focus on dubious racial oppression in the U.S.A. is a detraction from making the economy of all people rise with a new tide of ecospherically intelligent economic values.

The value of the right to vote is meaningful only when voter fraud is not a substantial percent of the votes cast. Defending the value of citizenship and the right of a citizen to vote on important issues such as political leadership requires adequate, contemporary photo voter I.D. The economic future of the poor and middle class are not necessarily bright in the intermediate range future of the U.S.A. The concentration of wealth in the hands of the top .1% comprised increasingly of bankers, financial sector workers and Wall Street C.E.O.s has morphed toward an extraction, rent-collecting class of clever skimmers, takeovers and makeovers artists instead of creative materials production. 

With the rise of the middle class in China and India and the BRIC nations the global plutocrats tend to view the former powerful and in decline U.S. middle class and of course the poor as of middling meaning. With politicians bought and paid for by the media owning Plutonomy the me-generation of middle class sycophants afraid to reform capitalism only support more deregulation of finance that serves to redistribute wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich. M.L.K. would not have been fooled by these events and would not have been a yard barking at who do's long gone.

Bored Youth Makes Bones for Crip Membership-Shoot Australian Chris Lane

The killing of an Australian college student in Oklahoma while jogging on scholarship was evidently a hate crime by two black Oklahomans and a Hispanic driver. All were under the age of 18. The reasons why the crime occurred are superficially interesting.

The Crips is a large racist street gang from Los Angeles originally. It expanded into Duncan Oklahoma a few years ago. There is a history in the Crips for apprentice or aspiring members to 'make their bones' for full membership by murdering someone. Going to jail for a few years for homicide is an accepted Crips career path. They may have their shoelaces out in readiness.

A former Australian Reich minister criticized America for having liberal gun ownership that let the would-be Crips kill the globetrotting baseball star Chris Lane because 'they were bored'. The Reich minister forgot to mention that of the former British colonies that have strict gun control as well as Britain itself have far fewer descendants of slaves and illegal aliens as citizens or residents. The U.S.A. and India were not insular possessions easily controlled by elites. Continental powers revolted successfully against imperial power (for a while at least until contemporary globalism developed) and further in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Complex free social environments require more individual gun ownership to remain free.

 In those insular comfort zones for white people like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and in Oriental countries like Japan and China that are largely racially separate from other major races gun ownership is not necessary for self defense under state authority. Like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union gun owning is actively discourage because minorities might have the opportunity to express civil dissent through direct kinetic projectile action on the ostensible foe class. It is the imperial powers that brought slavery to the world and that would further increase contemporary concentration of wealth and global unification of elite rule within ad hoc  Plutonomy.

Plainly the Crips, the Hoovah gang and other hate organizations have members that perpetrate hate crimes. Chris Lane was given a baseball scholarship because Oklahoma is saturated with intelligent college student applications and has few athletes so they needed to overlook Americans in granting scholarships. Why develop quality education when one has free advice from Reich ministers abroad on American affairs and the fraternal and malevolent Crips are available to induct youth into their training programs supported by the prison industry?

One wonders if the Hispanic youth involved in the sociopathic murder would be eligible for Crips memberships since it is probably a racially discriminatory organization. It is odd when race hate amidst haters expresses political dissent together through hate. The Middle East is that way too much of the time. As the late John Lennon might have sang 'Food stamps is the answer, you gotta let it grow'.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/21/police-say-teen-shot-australian-student-in-oklahoma-for-fun-it/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/justice/australia-student-killed-oklahoma

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_major_crip_sets_in_Oklahoma

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/21/oklahoma-dad-alleged-teen-killers-were-crips-threatened-to-kill-his-son/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollin_60's_Neighborhood_Crips