My friend Cameron has asked me and everybody else he knows to share this video, which he recorded at Bagram Airfield yesterday. I agree with his sentiments. More than that, however, I’m sad to see how sober and concerned he looks in this video. Cameron and I ran a major part of Honda’s production-line computing for 18 months together. He’s been a good friend to me and the two of us have had some brilliant times everywhere from my 40th birthday party to the Anna Engine Plant. We had a running competition to see who could get away with saying “bukkake” in front of the most members of the Japanese management. He had a smile on his face about 90% of the time and the fact that he can’t muster one now is perhaps more eloquent than anything he says about the situation.
If you’re an attractive young woman reading this, you should be aware that the beard and the Army-issue plastic glasses won’t make it back to the States when he does. If he does. Don’t even want to think about that.
Well said.
This possible involvement has nothing to do with the use of Sarin gas. It is about control of the region and providing fuel to Europe, bypassing Russian supplied fuel which it leverages through threats.
Where was the US when Sadam gassed the Kurds and Iranians(?)… Shaking his hand. Our priorities were different, yet the same…and so it goes…….
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I’m not sure why killing people with Sarin gas is worse than the 100,000 that have already been killed by conventional means. Were the Jews murdered by machine guns at Baby Yar less dead than those killed with Zyklon B at Auschwitz?
When I look at the factions at war in Syria, I’m tempted to repeat what a wise man said about the Iraq-Iran war, “High score!” Is that callous towards human life? I’ll follow an old tradition of my people and answer a question with a question. Are there any factions currently fighting in Syria who wouldn’t kill my brother and his family who live in Jerusalem if they got the chance?
Seriously, if Muslims want to kill other Muslims, why should we intervene? At least Saddam Hussein threatened the U.S. and the Taliban government hosted those who attacked us. There was at least an arguable causus belli. It’d be one thing if were were going in to take control of stocks of chemical weapons. That’s arguably in our national interest. Other than that, what’s the point of getting into an armed conflict. As it is, we’re ignoring the plight of endangered Christian communities throughout the Middle East from the Chaldeans who are leaving Iraq, to the Copts in Egypt, to the Maronites and other Christian sects in Syria, so why should we care if Syrians kill Syrians?