Thank you Susanhu...I felt that this was of significant international importance, to be relevant to this site. Now I know very little about Syria, except that I know that there has been a long time distrust or animosity between them and the US, though they did support the US in Desert Storm. I also heard on a radio show a year or two back that, despite this difficult relationship, the Syrians had been very helpful in the past through "back channels", in giving the US information about potential attackers of US interests...though that stopped once they became one of the "Axis of Evil". I know people who have worked and traveled there who say the Syrian people are very nice. That's the extent of my knowledge (which is prety sad). But...does the US think that de-stabilizing Syria is going to help the Middle East? Can it get any worse? Without taking sides for or against the Syrian government here, and having no illusions that they are "good guys", I am still very much against another unilateral attack on an independent Middle Eastern country. Has the US gone crazy? Or is this just an attempted distraction from previous illegal behavior that is being investigated. Desperate people can do desperate things...but a war on Syria?

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia