Children and War

I feel badly that children are being killed in Syria, but that has been happening every day of my life (85 years) some where in the world.  Its just when the politicos want to whip up war fever they show pictures of children being starved and/or killed.  We are a compassionate nation and the rest of the world knows it and leverages it to their advantage.

I can assure you that if we rain missiles down on Asad and his Syria the very next day they will trot out dozens of pictures of children killed by those missiles.  It won't matter whether they were killed by the missiles or some other means.  The photos will be graphic and horrible to look at.  We will be made to be the bad guys in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Be careful what we wish for.  We may get it thrown right back in our face.  Obama may think of "limited military action" as only a pin prick, but I can assure you Asad and his cohorts will not see it that way. They will see it as an act of war.  If Asad, or anyone else, rained missiles down on Washington, D.C. I can assure you we would see it as an act of war.

War has a propensity for spreading with unintended consequences.  Don't hope for the best.  Be prepared for the worst  Tread carefully when walking in a field of rattlesnakes.