Sorry joke.

Editor,

Chemical weapons. Chemical weapons.

What about the fact that the USA is providing weapons to anti-Assad fighters affiliated with al Qaeda? We're fighting al Qaeda. We're arming al Qaeda.

And then there is having destabilized Syria in the first place. Yes, Assad is a bad man. But the story is a struggle between Saudi Arabia -- also bad men -- versus Iran, equally bad men.

Egypt, Israel, Lebanon; Hezbollah, Syria; Saudi Arabia, Iran.

Does the USA really know what it is doing here? Does Russia? Does China?

Oil, oil, oil. Burning which is making the planet uninhabitable for man.

There is a solution for the USA, but the corporations will not hear of it. Nor will the white supremacists. Nor will the religious nuts, the market nuts, the bank nuts.

Stop burning fossil fuels!

A WWII's worth of infrastructure, a WWII's worth of jobs, would put the US on the proper path, but n-o-o-o-o. It's chemical weapons, chemical weapons.

What a sorry joke.

Re: "A Sharp Shift in Tone on Syria From the White House" (8/26/2013)