If so, it will get very ugly, very fast.

Especially countries so far-removed geographically from Syria, as the US.

Why can't we mind our own damned business, rebuild our infrastructure,
invest in our youth, and in expanding sustainable energy sources?

last I heard, Syria has not declared war on the US.

USA is not the Cop of the World, so needs to stop reflexively acting like one.

It has never worked out well to do it, never. The quagmire effect drags on
and on, piling up the dead, ours included.

What gives the US the right to think it needs to intervene when foreign rulers
we don't approve of, mistreat their citizenry ... wasn't that the rationale for
attacking iraq?

We often get so caught up in the rhetoric, it's easy to miss the big picture.

The monsters and profiteers that like to use the U.S. as the World's Cop couldn't care less about human rights in Iran, Cocainia, or Faroffistan; they just want da war (and da loot).

on a few issues like war, legalization of drugs, and who are then used by
Establishment Democrats to scare and intimidate other Democrats into
voting for Establishment Democrats.

This is well-known by most progressives .. the ones with more than 1-2 brain
cells still firing .. but nice try though.

brilliance.

I mean, that's all very well, but he's a great big hypocrite.

* the lucky 12 million who made it out alive.

sit in Syria.