Maybe this isn't enlightening but might resonate with some of you. The past 3 years I've been completely unable to discern any rhyme or reason for the USA's foreign policies. Didn't understand why we turned iraq over to the Shiites and Iran influence. Didn't understand why we invaded Libya and now don't understand why we are involved with Syria. Didn't understand our support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
In all my life, and I do remember Vietnam from the early days, our foreign policy has never been so absurd, illogical, and unexplained.
It does appear that our administration is reactive not proactive and just trying to sweep over events so that we don't see or understand what is going on through media control to hide their policy lack of control/reactive state In most cases, other countries, be they Chinese, European, Pakistani, or whomever, are moving the world in various ways and our administration is trying to gloss over and hide the changes.
The Syrian intervention is stranger even than the Libyan, which itself was entirely ridiculous. This absence of reasonable communication between the leadership and the people that is elucidated in the I ching as a great disaster and trouble. Our natural inclination to run for the hills and hunker down is, in fact, reflected in the warnings in the I Ching to avoid being near the center of power during such times.
What do you know?
My greatest concern is this absence of rational contact between the apparently-mad administration and the people is opening the door to a huge number of conspiracy theories, most of which carry no water but capture the imagination People will grab onto any straw rather than drown in the abyss of unknowingness. I need not elucidate any of these theories here, they are everywhere.
Beware this brief and volatile period. The administration, acting with the Enthusiasm of the Catholic Church using the brand-new Gutenberg press to extract new taxes known as "indulgences" from every household, using the pieces of printed paper as records of such taxation, is now using the computer and internet to find every household and extract our wealth through instant bank account emptying and or "Obamacare Taxes" which can only be administered because of the new power of computer.
The Catholic Church quickly found itself dealing with Martin Luther's proclamation of protest on the door of a church.
The administration will also find itself increasingly facing pressures from people who are being themselves pressured by economic and taxation woes beyond their worldly experience. This ties in with the above, the apparent nonsense being promoted abroad by a military policy that extracts 52% of the federal budget but brings us nothing but grief (that we see and understand, anyway), and we must see we are in an even graver crisis than that of Nixon's Watergate period.
When was the last time you heard of any policy of this administration, whether foreign or domestic, that made sense to you? We are the most conservative and thoughtful of people, discussing, researching, and trying to think through these matters. Probably less than 5% of our citizenry is of such ilk. The rest are a ticking timebomb.
Just what's been bugging me recently. This business of Syria brings the whole ball of wax to the forefront. Or should I use snowball? Cause the whole snowball is there, not just the current issue, cause nothing is ever resolved to a reasonable conclusion. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Egypt, even Haiti and the US itself just keep on getting worse and worse.
Don't know how this will play out, but but you can almost smell the smoke and feel the heat. 