Syria Revisited

Yes, the U.N. is once more found conspicuously missing in action when and where it really matters..."So what else is new?" you ask. Which of course is why the good ole U S of A is once again expected to 'pick up the slack' and act as Global Cop/Enforcer (the World's Moral Policeman)...ever and mercilessly pilloried by all and sundry for just such interventionism... And so commendable if altogether predictable words today from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon that the U.N. may well (and none too) soon have a 'moral obligation' to act...i.e. against the Syrian leader's chemical assault upon his own people - whatever such action may actually happen to entail/necessitate...(naturally another matter entirely, but good luck to that vain hope, as it'll not happen, quite obviously, except in a fool's paradise). Meanwhile American Secretary of State (and one-time Democratic Presidential Nominee John Kerry has indeed addressed, and well, the issue - ever simmering on the back-burner - of 'unintended consequences', (e.g. and most worrisomely, no doubt, a spillover into a regional 'all out', and, through targeting of Israel, potentially a far wider and world-engulfing conflagration). But, however sure he may (at least claim to) be, I fear and suspect that the world's other (alongside America) favourite whipping boy Israel will once more be used/employed as the region's, and world's, fall-guy by the likes of Assad et al. Welcome one and all to International RealPolitik 101 in the 21st Century!