re: #31 Gus

GRAYSON: What’s actually happened is that until this point, in the past couple of years, this has been an internal civil war. It’s been the Alawites on one side and the Sunnis on the other side. And it’s been to some degree a reasonable expression of the desire of many people to have a modern life and not live under a dictatorship. But in the past several months what’s happened is that the backing by other foreign governments of certain rebels, Al-Nusra, has led to a situation where the strongest opposition force in Syria today is in fact another fundamentalist Muslim regime like the one in Iran. So we have a fundamentalist Muslim regime in Iran fighting fundamentalist Muslim Sunnis in a proxy war in Syria. I don’t think we have a dog in that fight. I think this is one of those extraordinarily rare occasions when I think I’m in agreement with Sarah Palin. She said, let Allah sort it out.

Oh fuck him in so many different ways.

I am so fucking sick of variants of “Brown people gonna brown people. SEP”

Like every person in Syria is cleanly aligned with an religious extremist faction, such that none of their deaths are tragic or unavoidable.