Leveling The Levant

Why? Aylan. Why?

Damascus has been continuous occupied for over five thousand years. The lands around Syria have supported innumerable civilizations throughout the millenia. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire Greater Syria was mandated under French control and at the end of World War II France granted the ancient lands freedom. Most of its following history has been dominated by the ruling Assad family, however during the Arab Spring of 2011 huge crowds gathered in every major Syrian cities to protest the draconian rule of President Bashar al-Assad. Having witnessed the fall of Iraq's Saddam, the Alawite clan leader decided to respond to the masses' request for more freedom with violence and the crackdown soon evolved into a vicious civil war shattering national unity.

Bombardments, air strikes, assassinations, massacres, poison gas attacks, extremists, hardliners, starvation, murder, and despair have forced millions of Syrians to flee their native land for refuge in neighboring countries ill-equipped to provide comfort for the desperate refugees.

Left with few options these forlorn Syrians have fled their homeland in droves.

By air, by land, and by sea.

This week the shores of Greece harvested a tide of dead refugees.

One was a baby. He was three years old and his name was Aylan Kurdi, whose Kurdish family was fleeing the depredations of a brutal kaleidoscope of horror.

Left with nowhere else to go this boy found his place in the world on a beach.

This tragedy and the other tragedies of the world has to stop.

Silence is not an option.

War is not the answer.

Only peace.

Smiles shall be he reward as those shining from Aylan Al-Kurdi and his older brother, Ghalib.

The Order Of St. Tranny

My friends accuse rt.com of anti-American bias. I don't blame them. They have reporters reporting reportages, instead of talking heads reading words from a teleprompter in front of a blue screen, however I had to admit that RT has a pro-Russian slant on Syria. Since the Cold War the Assad regime had been supplied with Russian munitions to counterbalance Israel's addiction to US arms and the Kremlin has dealt with 'internal' Muslim unrest with an unbridled ruthlessness. There will never be a Free Chechnya. Today RT released an interview from a Syrian Christian nun contesting the White House accusations of the Assad regime gas bombing civilians on the Damascus outskirts. Please read http://rt.com/op-edge/mother-chemical-attack-footage-fraud-509/ Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib claimed that the attacks were fraud. Laissez-faire Western Media accepted 'her' claims as the truth. None of them commented on the size of her shemale hands, although once I posted the Order of St. Tranny's photos the very beautiful Emily R remarked 'she looks just like Soeur Marie-PIERRE haha the meanest one--had a moustache too-- I had back when i went to Mont-Olivet in Switzerland...Made me stand on top of a desk so she could measure the length of my uniform skirt that was too short (i had rolled it up at the waist)made me stand there for an hour!" I liked the image and asked, "Not with your arms out?" "No, she had those tied behind my back." As an atheist I stopped breathing in delight of her Corporal Catechism mirage. Bad Catholic schoolgirl. We loved them ad infintum.

Beautiful Weekend

The sun is shining on Fort Greene. The sidewalks are crowded with young people. The bars are serving drinks to football fans. There is not a cloud in the sky. New York is at peace. Syria is at war. cnn.news headlined 'Men sprawled on a tile floor, shirtless and convulsing. Children, too, seemingly unable to control their flailing. These are the images Obama has shown some senators in closed-door briefings.' Having been burned by GW Bush's WMD and two long brutal wars Americans are as desirous of isolation as a Trappist monk. Silence. The Huffington Post reported that 'a decent society would put people to work -- even if this required more government spending on roads, bridges, ports, pipelines, parks and schools....yet while attention is focused on Syria, food stamps for the nation's poor are being cut. House Republicans would eliminate food stamps for more than 800,000 Americans who now receive them but still do not get enough to eat or have only a barely adequate diet.' This is all true. The Atlantic published a badly-written article on Arab thinktanker William Polk's view on the civil war. The venerated politician cast doubt over blame for the gas attacks and asserted that the insurgents are corrupted by Al-Qaada, echoing the opinions of naysayers in the Land of the Free. No one wants another war. Not me and neither do most generals in the Pentagon, because the military's fragility matches that of the USSR after Afghanistan. Mutiny. Defeat. Dissolution. And then Putin, but no one can believe the truth, until they are ready to reject their belief in lies. And the truth is more obvious than a dog's balls. Someone bombed Syrians' with gas. My money is on Assad. Why? Once scum, always scum. FREE SYRIA, FREE PALESTINE, FREE THE WORLD

Heads Or Tails

Koln was devastated in World War II. The US Army Air Force stated that the bombardiers avoided hitting the famous medieval cathedral. In truth they used the stone church for a point of reference and the cathedral was struck on many occasions. The massive structure only remained standing thanks to the workmanship of Middle Age masons. Since WWII America has sought to resolve conflict with bombing. Korea, Viet-Nam, the shock and awe in Iraq, and now President Obama is proposing a bombing campaign against Syria's dictatorial regime in revenge for its use of Sarin gas on its people. The UK PM was rebuffed by Parliament on any participation in this 'humanatarian' mission and now America stands with France in sharing the desire to get involved in yet another overseas war. My opinion is to wait it out. Assad's troops are at the end of their tether. But the hawks want to strike out at an enemy, even though Assad helped the CIA rendition hundreds of torture victims throughout the War on Terror. But no one is talking about that now. Only war.