The more they attack Assad the more their own positions deteriorate

The more they try to destroy the Syrian people, the more their own societies disintegrate from within. 

One would think they would have noticed by now, this strange ricochet phenomenon, but doing so is having to admit to the existence of forces at work in human affairs that are beyond human understanding. They've lost the ability to admit to such things, and so they can be blind to what is right in front of them.

Why Bashar al-Assad?  Why Syria? Assad is not the only national leader who's been wrongly demonized, and Syria isn't the only country in this era that's been the target of balkanization by other governments.  So why is the strange phenomenon at work in these instances and not others? 

[shaking her head]  I could guess until the cows come home and still be no closer to the truth. I can say that one of the governments bent on taking control of Syria and removing Assad has recently seen its own increasingly difficult situation stabilize, a little, as it's made a tentative effort at rapprochement. I won't name the government, although anyone who's been paying close attention to the situation would know which one I'm thinking about. For now, I await further developments before I'll name the government.

I will close by repeating my advice, given when the real story came out about Edward Snowden's time as a contractor. The people he worked for knew they'd gotten a strange genius willing to do incredible things for them at a dirt-cheap price. So they should've known he was too good to be true.

I noted that if you see a mysterious lamp sitting in your path, this is not the time to say, 'Let's fool with the lamp and see what happens.' 

This is the time to ask yourself, 'Is this my lamp?' and if it's not, leave it alone.

With just that small amount of common sense, I believe, one can avoid the worst of unhappy encounters with forces beyond mortal ken. Indeed, entire societies might have a chance, if Syria is an indication. 

As to the fate of Benjamin Netanyahu, see this Associated Press report for the status of the indictment against him today -- the first charges ever brought against a sitting Israeli prime minister -- and what it portends for Israeli politics.  

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