My loyal readers know that I am concerned with the direction some politicians want the US to travel in the Middle East……..I believe that it is a fool’s errand to push too hard on support for the rebels…..since not many people can tell you who the rebels are other than they oppose Assad……..caution is needed…..

John McCain was just in Syria…..what a guy, what a guy……he has been a vocal proponent for the US to dive into the civil war with both feet……his idea along with a couple of his posse is to arm the rebels……now think about that……..(pause here for reflection)……we armed the rebels in Afghanistan and that was a disaster…..we armed the rebels in Libya and the country is awash with weapons and we lost an ambassador and these dipsticks want to add more arms to yet another conflict……..does anyone see the folly here?

The conflict has spilled over the borders of Syria……Syria into Turkey….then Syria into Lebanon and then Israel into Syria…..and it will only get worse……and the border violations will just get into the realm of a major international situation……Iran is arming the government…..Russia is in the pockets of Assad and then there is the US and EU who feel that throwing weapons at the conflict will somehow make all right in the Middle East…..and finally there is Iran who has given Assad its undying support…..weapons and I would not be surprised, people……

This is quickly becoming a proxy war being fought between world powers and emerging powers and those that want to be a world power…….this situation is leading nowhere good.

To illustrate the complexity of this situation……

Russia will not cancel plans to deliver an air-defence system to Syria despite Western opposition in order to help deter foreign intervention in the two-year-old conflict, according to the country’s deputy foreign minister.

Speaking in Moscow on Tuesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also accused the EU of “throwing fuel on the fire” by letting its own arms embargo on Syria expire.

“We think this delivery is a stabilising factor and that such steps in many ways restrain some hotheads from exploring scenarios in which this conflict could be given an international character with participation of outside forces,” Ryabkov said.

The rebels are trying to exert their dominance in the area…….

The questions of the Syrian Civil War spilling over into its neighbors have long since been answered, but the situation in Lebanon looks to be escalating rapidly, with a pair of missiles, fired from Syrian rebel positions, pounding the outskirts of the capital city of Beirut today.

The attacks only wounded four in a residential area, but point to the rebels’ pledges of hitting Lebanon as retaliation for Hezbollah’s involvement in their war. Rebels had been saying that they were planning attacks on Lebanon for “several weeks,” and officials said the strike today was a “warning” to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to withdraw.

Turkey is thumbing it’s nose at Iran……..

Thanks to Turkey’s meteoric economic rise over the past decade, the second part of that vision has been, for the most part, fulfilled. Turkey today is the Middle East’s dominant economy; surpassing runners-up Iran and Saudi Arabia by a wide margin. Turkish businesses are rising in the Middle East, and Turkish cultural products, from television programs to schools, are in demand across the region.

But, Turkey’s plan to be a stand-alone power in the region is nowhere near fruition. The war in Syria has forced Ankara to revise this policy, and this has meant re-appraising the value of ties with the United States. Since 2011, Ankara has moved close to the United States, looking for shelter once again under the NATO umbrella.

Those are just the most recent example of how the situation in Syria is beginning to spin out of control…….regardless of what McCain and his bunch of lip flappers say, the US needs to tread carefully or we could be butt deep in another Iraq……..

The American people need to keep a vigilant eye on their clowns in Washington……I do not trust them….how about you?

Addendum:  After I wrote this draft news broke that the US will be sending arms into Syria….it seems that the government has crossed that invisible “red line”…..God bless us all!