To Play the TURK

It has been difficult for the United States, and the great powers of the world to resist the impulse to govern and punish nations of the Mid East; that is .. to play the Turk. Turkey before post WWI dismantlement of the Ottoman Empire, ruled most of the Mideast nations as provinces. Sending in the Turk, or playing the Turk has been a favorite critical satirical goad of mine. When a highly and proud and previously functioning nation as Syria has been faulted by the United Nations, punishment, also of that of a criminal charge's nature, should also be the job of the International Court of Justice, a UN Agency which the US has declined to wholly recognize (due to apprehensions of past US Presidents). Only a wholly immediate danger can be preemptively attacked. When a nation is charged in the case of Syria with material human rights wrongs, the process is investigation, and a criminal or a UN Security Council charge. That is followed by a resolution of international action. The act is to limit a danger and injurious risk capacity. In Syria's case, for the US, of course, Israel is the prod. Israel can be injured by crude and sophisticated weapons and those aimed at psychological hysteria in such a politically run population as Israel's. The US need not unilaterally nor multilaterally punish. President Assad is not in total control of Syria's parts nor the military council with his father's influence. The proper course is a UN instruction to account for the alleged weapons use, an inspection, and to sustain a desist. A non-UN pre-emptive course will create a TILT in a civil war, and broaden it. No greater course of needed action has been proved. No renegade nor accidental course has been dis-proved. Sadly, the Swedish UN Weapons Inspector during the Iraqi war prelude, yielded to the Real-Politik circumstance, that the Americans and the British could not take the itch of not knowing. Lets not re-do that. An AP (Associated Press) story this morning, explained: a 2 AM crash and bang (explosion)... a sudden strong smell of chlorine, and rotten or burnt onions (the chemical attack or accident of war damage??) If the POTUS yields to bad advice (Clinton style) to boost his foreign policy morale after Egypt, I as a US citizen will seek his resignation, or Impeachment. The President of the United States of America does not PLAY THE TURK!