Bombing Syria

I might be misreading the comments, but it looks as if Iran and the USA have nudged each other into the position that a minor slap in the face of the Syrian government, which won't change the status quo, is tolerable to both sides. Iran really does not like nerve gas (Iraq used it against them), but Iran will continue to support the Shia side of things in the growing Shia-Sunni conflict. The American government talked itself into a place where now it has to retreat or act in some way. This is a mess on top of the mess we call the Middle East.

Polls show that the American people do not want to intervene in Syria between what amounts to Islamic terrorists on one side and Fascists on the other. Our plan to intervene in a calculated way that has no impact on the status quo is absurd. True enough, our navy has ten times more fire power than all the other navies of the world combined. Our tax dollars paid for that. We have the guns. But we do not want to serve as the world's unauthorized police force. The problems of the Middle East should be settled by the people who live there. Or not. It's on them.