The New York Times' David Brooks is often cited in this blog as I find his insights fun, interesting, sometimes important. On the other hand, his August 29 column worries about the unrest in Syria metastasizing into a region-wide religious war of Sunni vs. Shia.
Brooks frets about what, if anything, we might do to stop that from happening. Implicit in his argument is that we should try. Really? Why?
The FBI doesn't get overmuch concerned when one Mafia family kills an inconvenient member of another family. Why should we involve ourselves in this fight between Middle Eastern thugs?
As long as Sunnis are busy fighting off Shias, they aren't attacking the U.S. and its friends. That works for me, how about you?
