Moving sands

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

One of the most persistent cliches about the Middle East is that it's a swamp (or rather, a desert of moving sands) where, the more you try to get out, the more stuck you get. This notion may be buzzing inside the head of president Obama too, and giving sleepless nights to his retinue of advisors and smart-heads at the White House, now that the US has started gathering a Coalition of the Willing again, and bracing themselves for another military adventure in Iraq's sands.

We all know what has brought things to this. The many various groups from the Syrian civil war that were so erratically and arbitrarily funded in the name of deposing bad Assad in the last three years, have gradually mutated into this ISIL monster. The beheadings of Western journalists have predictably sent the wheel of war going once more, although the local people have been experiencing that sort of draconian terror on a daily basis for decades - but apparently those don't matter that much, since they're brown people who talk funny and live thousands of miles away from the safety of our comfy ketchup-stained armchairs.

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