"We Won't Be Bombing You Today. But Remember, We're Good At Bombing, So Tomorrow, Who Knows?"

It looks like President Obama has successfully danced between the raindrops without getting wet.  With a little back-channel diplomacy at the G20, some face-to-face diplomacy between Secretary Kerry and Russian counterpart Secretary Lavrov, and a very reasonable desire to avoid World War III, it now seems that we won't be bombing Syria anytime soon.  Which is very good news.

Of course, that could change in a heartbeat, mainly because Assad remains a chin-less, duplicitous rat bastard.  ("Oh, did you mean those chemical weapons?  I forgot about those.")  But also because, as George Carlin once warned us, we kinda like war and we're good at bombing shit, so we do a lot of it.

The late, great Carlin always enjoyed ruffling feathers and being controversial.  He was nothing if not thought-provoking.  This video is more than 20 years old, and George is talking about the Persian Gulf War, a.k.a Desert Storm back in 1991.  (Iraq I, Iraq II, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria -- is there really much difference?)

Check it out: