A Sept. 9 Columbian online story reported “Scant success so far for Obama’s Syria sales pitch.” It might not be long before Syrians can sleep peacefully again, knowing that they need no longer fear the specter of chemical weapons.
Sure, they may still be murdered and mutilated by rockets, tanks, guns, and mines — that seems infinitely more acceptable to the world, in particular the American government, which is propounding so in winding, contradicting convolutions with moralistic froth framing its hypocritical lips.
It’s not in whether thousands of innocents are killed, but in how they’re killed that meaning is found sufficient to show how offended we are. It’s ego-validating to our permanent state of self-deluding self-sanctification.
Michael E. White
Brush Prairie
