The government's responsibility to promote the common good | National Catholic Reporter

The government's responsibility to promote the common good | National Catholic Reporter by Robert Christian.  MGB: As a late boomer (like Obama) who registered for the Draft because of the Afghan invasion by the Soviets (we were never called up - the CIA did the heavy lifting), I am in favor of some response in Syria.  I don't, however, find Obama's Middle Eastern policy feckless at all.  The fact is that the Arab Spring, as well as the Syrian resistance, was hijacked by the better organized Islamist parties, with the Syrian resistance including al Queda.  Unless al Queda wants to negotiate a peace with us from all points, we have no incentive to help them.  We do have an incentive to help rebuild Syria, however.  The Hashemite Dynasty should be proposed as the new rulers of Syria, Jordan, the Lebanon, Iraq and those Arab parts of Israel and the West Bank that Israel badly needs to lose to retain its status as a Jewish state.  I'm sure this will be a tough sell to Israel, but it is in their interest and that of the region.  As far as Egypt, the coup was the right thing as Morsi was making things worse.