John McCain Back To Normal

After suffering a brief moment of clarity when he called for unbundling and ala carte pricing in the cable TV business, John McCain is back to his normal, bellicose self.  He secretly visited Syria for a couple minutes and now he's loudly calling for America to get involved in the Syrian civil war by arming the anti-Assad rebels.  John's default setting is always something militaristic, isn't it?

Syria is a trap -- a giant, sucking sink-hole.  Assad is a horrible piece-of-shit dictator who squashes his opposition by killing them, sometimes with chemical weapons.  His regime is chummy with Iran and Russia.  On the other side, the so-called rebels that McCain wants to support are led by a loose coalition of Islamic radical jihadists, some of whom have ties to Al Qaeda.  Lovely.

There's no good choice here, other than to hope that somehow they both lose.  After our folly in Iraq and more than a decade of futility in Afghanistan, the last thing we should do is get involved in Syria.  I hope Assad drops dead, but I wouldn't send the rebels ten cents.