We know how flexible US Red Lines are. Obama’s latest is the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime being the condition for US intervention. But OOPS, UN Finds Only Syrian Rebels Used Chemical Weapons (reported by Zero Hedge). So if the bad Syrian regime – the black hats – didn’t use them, but it was the good guys – the guys with the white towels – that used them, what is poor Obama to do? Who should he bomb?

This is an ugly sectarian civil war, the kind that regularly pops up in the Mideast. We realize that in their simplistic arrogance, Western progressives (it is so helpful that they have given themselves a handle) are looking for any group that can impose their cultural and political values and doctrines on foreign cultures, but in the case of Syria, who is wearing the white hats? We have no business intervening here, just as we had no business intervening in Iraq or Afghanistan, both countries that are enjoying increased political instability and domestic violence since our benign interventions that set them free.

Postscript

We failed to consider the obvious: White House Says Ignore Facts, Assad “Likely” Behind Syrian Chemical Weapons After All. Manufacture a chemical weapons event! It worked for Iraq, it worked for Vietnam. Hell when you want war you can have war. To paraphrase a recent White House apparatchik: “You never want a serious opportunity to attack another country to go to waste.”

… the first alleged terrorist bomber, 19 year-old Dhjokar Tsarnaev, born in Kyrgystan, … his brother, 26 year-old, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, born in Russia … [who] died overnight in a shootout with the local police … was very religious … . His YouTube page can be found here: on it can be found videos of Islamic preacher Feiz Mohammad.

In 2007, the Australian Federal Police investigated whether 16 DVDs of Mohammed’s sermons, called the Death Series, broke laws against sedition, racial vilification, and inciting violence and terrorism.

In short we expect this to be an Islamic terrorist attack, whether or not it is associated with any Islamic organization. We also expect the Obama administration to portray this as disaffected youth with American society to blame for not reaching out to the poor dears and integrating them, but certainly no connection with radical Islamic teaching.

Supporting the idea that they might be Muslim is the statement from the father cited by Zero Hedge: “Ok, Thanks to Allah you were not close to there and did not suffer.”

Also read: Massachusetts Governor Sowed Seeds Of Islamic Terrorism In Boston Years Ago