I tend not to write and think about foreign wars, as it's generally not my business, even though the hard-won doctrines of neutrality seem to have slipped away in the last few years. I doubt that there will be the equivalent of the Alabama settlement after the dust settles in Europe, for example. (Interestingly, the U.K, as a dominant naval power, always sidestepped the 19th c. neutrality conventions.) The events of the last few days or so in the Levant are troubling. Going after general command and control seems to signal an all-out war. I don't think a conflict can get more across-the-board than that. These are not proportional attacks in pursuit of declared objectives, nor are they claimed to be. Which is why I'm puzzled that the news seems to treat it as the sort of one-off strikes that happen from time to time. Hold on to your... whatever it is that you think that you should grab onto. #notexpert #justwiseacring
