Friday, August 24, 2012
I read two things this morning that seemed to capture the sad absurdity of the Syria problem - one story about a missing young American reporter, ex-marine, who waded into that mire motivated by an angry idealism and found himself admiring the insurgents because unlike his lazy, fatted, self obsessed countrymen they were willing to die for something 'noble' - and then the story of one of these captured 'freedom fighters' who apparently, in all seriousness, thought he was in Palestine making war on the Jews - frightening thing is one has to assume there are many more like him because otherwise you'd think at some point someone would have lowered the AK-47 for a moment and whispered to him "ah... sorry, my friend, this is Syria and we're here to kill Alawites... more or less... gist of it anyway".
