Some personal thoughts on the extreme violence of the emerging conflict.
Do something that cannot be ignored! It's a trap and the monkey (USA) has all but reached into it. We all question America's motivation given its military capabilities, which we are about to see in action once again. What surprises will there be this time, we wonder? The peaceful road is not an option any more. Those that would deceive have seen to that whether secret security forces of America, Russia, Iran, al ?.. , Syria. ....? Children being poisoned in this mad war is the last straw. Reason no longer rules.
The world has grown very used to various Islamic factions perpetually at war with themselves and everyone else, it seems. By stomping on human rights these rigid and mostly violent old regimes offer no futures to ordinary people. No religious leaders offer peace processes that are credible. The talk is always of keeping the status quo? None are self sacrificial except to blow up people on the way to a selfish heaven. America with it's intelligent compassionate leaders, a break from the Rumsfield mentality of the past, offers hope, but the best people are stepping into policy quicksand while Russia is pouring in water and shaking the framework.
Syria has had every opportunity to come clean with its people. Unfortunately, Russia's propaganda machine continually misleads everyone about the real solutions and options because it wants to trip America and the West at every opportunity, which lowers everyone's desire for sense of decency and understanding. It is Russia that the West must blame. Russia gives hope to a dictator who is about to blow his head off as he presses the delivery button for poisonous weapons of mass destruction heading Israel's way?
No America is nothing like what Russia would have you believe it is. Children and innocents die while the world hesitates to stop the use of chemical weapons because of Russian disinformation. A monster dictator governing Syria moves along with Iranian and Russian weapons and technical help.
When the people of Syria spontaneously rebelled at the closed political system in Syria people in Russia flinched because that is the direction Russia wishes to take the world. This is a war conflict between Russia and United States which could have momentous consequences as the possibility of the use of nuclear warheads looms. How do you counter poison gas scuds thrown at Tel Aviv?
It's a war about values and human rights and certainly one the west cannot afford to lose. Russia has shown its direction is towards dictatorship and reconstruction of intolerant regimes where homophobia and discrimination against women rule. That is not a path the world really wants. It is an old system of control and deceit being played by tired old Russians and former KGB, the master hands at the game of disinformation! The unambiguous control exercised and demanded by Iranian political and religious leaders is no better!
Iran at every step uses religion and exploitive terror to further it's goals of regional disruptor. This is war in its ugliest form, make no mistake. Russia's unscrupulous meddling in the Middle East and it's propaganda machine attacking American, Arab and Western credibility at every step helps no one.
Time for the West to stand up for its values of honesty and fair play despite the enormous scandal of Russian propaganda and weaponry in aiding a failed violent regime. Know your enemy, and Russia / RT is not our friend in this?
Unfortunately, Syria stands as a major stumbling block to stability in the Middle East which craves a break towards reason and tolerance only to have Russia and Iran stirring the pot!