The Crosshairs Twitch From Target To Target

[poliphilo]

Bloody Assad; he kills his own people. Really we ought to be fighting him.

No, hang on a minute; the Russians have invaded Eastern Ukraine. Perhaps we should be fighting them instead. Bloody Putin!

No, wait. There are these new guys- Isis or Isil or something. They not only kill their own people but ours as well. Totally evil. Let's fight them! Maybe Assad will give us a hand...

Comments

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

Short-term thinking never works out well in the long run...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Quite so.

It would be nice if our leaders knew a little history.