Syria

Open email to Congress:
    The warmongers are again beating the war drums. Sen. McCain is back with his usual war rhetoric. The Pentagon generals want to supply Syrian rebels with weapons.
    It's all ridiculous!
    We fought a war in Korea which we did not win and has brought us to the present situation of threats of nuclear war.
    We fought a war in Vietnam to stop communism. It was lost with the lives of many American men, who were forced into military service. We now have a significant part of our own population who are communists.
    We fought a war in Iraq, which we ostensibly won at great monetary expense, and the vast country is in greater turmoil than when we started.
    We are fighting a 10-year-old war in Afghanistan for no reasonable purpose. If the Afghanistan people want the Taliban, do we have some reasonable justification to say they can't have it.
    Our record of fighting most recent wars is horrible. We spent billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of American lives for no benefit. Are we stupid enough to continue that program?
    The Syrian government has every right to protect its continuance of power. The rebels have every right to try to wrest that power from the present government. We have no right to interfere, nor any reason to do so.
    President Obama has the ability to promulgate our involvement in the Syrian revolution without a formal declaration. It is up to Congress to see that it doesn't happen.