MIDDLE EASTERN CHAOS

A few months ago it was Libya and before that it was Egypt. Along the way, there were a few other less significant states and we still have Bahrain in a degree of turmoil.

Most significantly, the current concern seems to be Syria, where the uncivilized barbarians are wreaking havoc. The sad thing is that whoever wins, the barbarians will remain in charge because they are all barbarians.

Of course, saying such things is not only 'un-PC' but probably racist and illegal in this lunatic world of ours. Nonetheless, the truth is that countries such as Syria are barely beyond where we were 7 or 8 hundred years ago; they are, in all real senses, uncivilized barbarians. Oh yes, their rulers may have gone to Oxford, Cambridge or Sandhurst and they may be doctors or lawyers, but to bastardise an old saying, 'You can take the boy out of the desert but you can't take the desert out of the boy'. People such as Assad and his supporters are primitive in outlook and barbaric in behaviour; they are not dissimilar to the rulers of medieval Europe who routinely did the most horrendous things to their enemies. The only difference is that, today, the Western world has moved on and now considers such things to be unacceptable. Assad and his ilk are still there,in the middle ages.

Some in America are demanding that it's time for their country to take an active military role; what gives them that right in the absence of a UN mandate escapes me, but then of course, the USA basically does whatever it likes because no one else can challenge it - at the moment. The USA is at least as dangerous, if not actually much more so, than any of the countries it has the temerity to threatren, challenge or invade. Syria is simply the latest in a long list of supposed threats that some in the US feel needs to be neutralized. How Syria can actually be any sort of threat to the USA is a mystery to anyone who doesn't understand the incestuous relationship between that country and it's middle eastern master, Israel.

What is without doubt very clear is that Syria is just another medieval state and no amount of western intervention will make any difference. As with Afghanistan, we can huff and puff but the only result will be to replace one corrupt and brutal regime with another. The USA will, if it serves it's own internal interests, send in the boys to sort out the natives, but at what cost and to what real end ? I despair of the modern world and frequently wonder if I am alone.