The correct
policy for American engagement in Syria is to root for injuries between the
warring parties. Neither side is our friend. Neither side wishes to be our
friend. When Middle Eastern tyrants are willing to pay us to take out the Assad
regime and the rebels are butchering Syrians as badly as Assad — possibly with
chemical weapons according to the United Nations — we should be staying out of
it.
We should be
hoping both sides incapacitate each other. But Americans must now become
mindful of the Baader-Meinhof Phenonmenon.
The phenomenon describes when one encounters something obscure, like a
previously unknown or little considered word, then encounters it repeatedly in
the ensuing days.
There’s a word
we are already beginning to hear. Having only noticed it in passing in the last
week’s talking points, it has become a steady drip, drip, dripping from the
Obama administration and John McCain — “moderate”. You will now hear it
constantly in conversations about the Syrian rebels.
Press reports
and intelligence confirm the Syrian rebels are brutal, allied to Al Qaeda,
slaughtering Christians, and bent on imposing a fundamentalist regime in Syria.
The supposed moderates are in the minority and, should Assad fall, will
themselves fall to more savage zealots driven not by a desire to throw off a
dictator, but by a more driving desire to impose themselves as dictators. It turns out the woman briefing John Kerry
and John McCain is in the employ of the Syrian rebels. She is a spin
artist for them. She has Kerry, McCain, and the rest describing the rebels as
moderates.....To Read More....
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