If the United States falls, it will not be because Bashar Assad got away with murdering his own citizens; it will be from the United States not dealing with the corruption within its own gates politically, financially, economically, and — the basis on which all the rest sits — morally. If we fall as a nation, we are going to fall because so few of us of any color have any ability or desire to make any decision beyond what satisfies our material and carnal desires on a day to day basis. Forget about Syria for a minute; in the U.S. you have one side of the political divide talking about throwing away 1 million children a year because they are “inconvenient” (we call that abortion), and the other side refusing to do what is necessary to give millions of poor children who managed to survive to be born even a basic shot at the resources necessary to live a productive life — instead, prisons are planned based on the number of such children in fourth grade! And neither side is serious about what to do about making sure the surviving little ones are employable (or, helping them toward entrepreneurship) as they grow up! That is inside the United States of America, every single year — we are speaking of MILLIONS of children, not hundreds, not thousands, but MILLIONS! And yet we can get so exercised about Bashar Assad and Syria.

But then again, maybe it would be easier to deal with Syria than to deal with our internal realities… hypocrisy can be very pragmatic, in the short term… but only the short term…