Peace talks pushed by the Russians, along with Turkey's outrage and China's stern message to the West's overt eagerness for intervention in Syria, maybe the temporary cover America needs to slow its roll. With the U.S. signing off on Israeli's military opportunism in Syria receiving serious push back from regional players and beyond, its time to key in on those talking loudest about joining the fight. When war talk gets started, events soon take on lives of their own.
China and Russia have expressed their concerns loudly, pointedly and consistently that the best course is to stop the fight from within as opposed to taking potshots from afar. Paraphrasing the Turks, the Israeli air-strikes have just muddied the waters without any idea which side they've helped or hurt.
On the other hand, since chaos breeds opportunity, its obvious the Israelis are in this to help themselves. Still, when you're operating in the dark, only a fool would start a shootout or worse yet, start handing out weapons to anybody that sounded friendly.
We're beginning to hear murmurings from the U.S Congress leaning toward intervening in Syria's civil war with virtually no clear explanation of what "vital interest" the United States has to protect there. Since our so-called representatives failed to disclose those bothersome details, we thought we'd nudge things along.
We need to know exactly what the United States' vital interest are, if any, to make sure said interest line up precisely with that of the American people's "vital interest". (Their is a distinct difference between the two, but we'll discuss at length later.) Depending on those "vital interest", if any, we need to determine how much of America's blood and treasure the nation is willing to sacrifice to defend them.
Absent any "vital interest" and the lack of independent verification with international corroboration of the use of chemical weapons, we think it wise to ratchet down the rhetoric and listen to the voices of reason. For the moment those voices are hailing from Russia and China. While their motives may deserve closer scrutiny, considering our assessments of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, they've crafted a far more reasonable response to the Syrian crisis to date.
As most would agree, there are no good solutions to such a convoluted conflict such as Syria's and it will take clean hands and ethical judgement to ferret out the best course of action for America. Given the usual faceless forces working the halls of Congress, we feel that task is beyond the competency of the United States Congressional body. Therefore, any recommendations coming from that corrupt institution should be discounted if not discarded outright. This problem will have to be shouldered by the White House and the American people.
Sorting out the real demons in this hellish fight will be difficult enough without the constantly worrying about the inside games.
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