While President Barack Obama thinks about helping the jihadists rebels beat Syria President Bashar al-Assad’s forces through military strikes, I keep thinking about this US military spending chart from the Washington post:
How many conclusions did you reach?
And besides this, what are the Russians really thinking?
BTW, don’t worry about the lack of money for a war. Deficits mean almost nothing in the short term when you can print your own money and the world is forced to use it.
Back to Syria — I’m afraid this bad situation is about to become unimaginably worse…
song currently stuck in my head: “life is just a moment (part 2)” – roy ayers
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Interesting post. I posted something on this topic a while ago; baring in mind what you’ve written you may be interested. rileyfrost.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/what-are-the-concequences-of-military-intervention-in-syria/