50 Years of Syrian Mysery

Submitted by Judith (United States), Mar 9, 2013 at 13:21

It is a strange conundrum in history that after WWII the Islamic countries in the Middle East seemed to slip and slide into worse tyranny than under the Ottoman Turkish Empire. As the scepter passes onward, one thing remains constant, that Islamic rulers remain tyrants, wining about each other and getting rich manipulating other people's money. Even democratic elections can carry dire consequences when leaders never care about human life and dignity. There seems to be no Middle East doctrine in the Islamic world that does and the people can never seem to get out from under tyranny.

If only Washington and the rest of the world would stop trying to choose sides. Democracy is more than an election and so far has yielded no better results than military revolutions in Syria. Are we going in the same direction? Seems so. Those drones over my back yard are getting a little annoying! What are we doing over there when our own government is messing with us over here? Where is sanity?

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