On Syria

As far as I understand, there is a little something called the Arab Spring that is happening right now. It is a noble movement, sparked by the educated and revolutionary spirit of the Iranian people; a populace that has always been very leery about imperial power both within and most importantly, from outside their country. The protest of 2009, following the re-election of President Ahmadinejad, saw tremendous bloodshed, a great flexing of military might that sought to protect what it claimed to be a fair election. I am afraid that the military response that Iran's Revolutionary Guard took to its protesters is itself a great irony of the Arab Spring. The cruelty that the Revolutionary Guard engaged in was not unusual, but it was excessive, and perhaps there is a lesson to be learned in this sad fact, and the reason why so many American soldiers are coming back with Post Traumatic Stress disorder from the Middle East; these thugs don't give a fuck. They have the eye of the sniper, and the bite of the tiger, and are not afraid to kill whoever may have the tenacity/audacity to stand up to them. Syria has adopted this strategy on their dissidents in the very same manner as the Revolutionary Guard, and as a result we have what Wikipedia is now referring to as the Syrian Civil War; a 2 year skirmish in which the military has slaughtered several thousand people, half of whom are said to be civilians, and 6 million people have been displaced (2 mil out of the country), for a multitude of reasons I do not dare to imagine.
On Syria.
On Syria.
This is Syria right now. Over one hundred thousand dead, and all the world's eyes turned to see what will come of this great Arabian nation. I for one would like to see Assad deposed for War Crimes the way Hussein should have been. That is the future I want to see RIGHT NOW for this exploited, war torn, yet absolutely beautiful and still very "Fertile" part of the misbegotten "Crescent".
Amen.