SYRIA; SOMETHING MUST BE DONE

Rwanda, Bosnia, the Holocaust. at some point brutality becomes genocide. it must be unacceptable.

Assad must go; its not OK the slaughter your own people. china and Russia are against it for self interest. we are all self interested. Russia views Syria as a client state; they sell them arms and its one of the few Arab countries they still have influence with in the region. and both china and Russia looked at the Libya mission which really was mission overstep. it went from protecting lives to regime change. now it was a regime worth changing; but china and Russia are obsessed with social unrest that leads to regime change. so it is a problem. we need to reach out to china and Russia, give them a role, assurances, arms deals in the future, whatever.

and stop the killing of civilians!

GREECE WILL FAIL

i think the Greek legislature passed the austerity bill required for their bailout to proceed. the people are rioting.

it will fail.

the economy is shrinking; people are leaving Athens for the country to subsistence farm.

Greece will default. they should never have been allowed into the euro, they should never have been loaned hundreds of millions of dollars. and by the way, the 100 billion haircut covers only private sector holders of Greek debt, not entities like the IMF or the ecb. why? why are their bonds better than private bond holders bonds?

by the way, the Greek economy is comparable to Delaware,