President Obama has totally mishandled the crisis in Syria. Right now, it is too late to produce any outcome in that country that could be considered "good" for the West. We have a choice between a murderous thug Assad who is the representative of the Iranian mullahs in the Arab world and who supports Hezbollah, a terrorist group on the one hand or a Sunni government dominated by groups linked directly to al Qaeda on the other hand. Meanwhile, until a final outcome thousands die, get wounded and made homeless each week. That is bad enough. Much worse, however, is that the same sort of mess seems to be descending on Egypt, the largest Arab country. Yesterday, forty or more people were killed and more wounded in a battle outside an army barracks in Cairo. Each side says that the other started it, although it looks right now that it was the Moslem Brotherhood forces launching an assault that began the shooting. We don't know for sure, though. If Egypt falls into a civil war, everyone loses. America cannot sit by and allow this to happen if we have a way to help to prevent it. The dodos who surround Obama will, no doubt, fail to come to a reasonable conclusion about what to do. Obama will be unable to make a decision until more evidence comes in (sometimes in 2018 when he is no longer president). But we cannot wait. We need to act now when our support could prove decisive, not later when it is too late. It is too bad we do not have a leader in the White House.
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