Dreary day, heart eater

My Labor Day was pretty nondescript.  The weather was gray, rainy and shitty pretty much all day long.  It did little to motivate me to do anything very exciting with my time.  I attended to a few household needs, did some work on my Tuffwing, played some WoW and generally just shuffled throughout the day.

Some of you may have seen this video posted online (warning, it is disgusting), of supposedly the leader of the Syrian rebels cutting out the heart of a dead enemy soldier and then biting into it.  The point of the video when shown to Americans is to drive home the type of mentality that is present in the Syrian conflict.  To me it seems like you have rampant extremism on both sides of the line.  Of course I have no way of knowing if the man on tape is whom the media has portrayed him to be but none the less, it is a very disturbing visual which would give most people pause.

I think Obama’s decision to not make the call on intervention his and his alone was a wise one.  Putting it to Congress will more than likely prevent the use of authorized military force in Syria, which at this point I think is the best course to take.  Unfortunately, Syria like so many areas in the middle east, seems poisoned with evil, ruthless individuals that place little value on human life or dignity.

Sure we can help support the relief effort, help some of the nearly 2 million Syrian civilians that have already gotten the hell out of that miserable country.  But to support one terrorist group or another should not be a choice we make.  I am not down with backing up heart eating, Al Qaeda loving nutjobs.  My advice to the people of Syria, leave….