The anguish of Aleppo

The anguish of Aleppo: Distinctly Catholic: Given the stakes in Syria, the time for

MGB:The Syrian uprising was part of the Arab Spring, which was based on the insane notion that civil disobedience could remake the region to become suburban San Jose. It was never a sane idea.  It was, however, not Obama’s and he is not responsible for its failure or for Russian opportunism.  In Syria, Rumsfeld is partly to blame for chasing elements that became ISIL out of Iraq into Syria. The best we can do is to help hunt those elements down and kill them.  The ”good rebels” supported by Senator McCain have always been on their own.