My newspaper tells me that our intrepid United Nations has sent 300 U.N. Observers to Syria. I have a question. What are they there to observe?
For more than a year now the ruler of Syria has had his Security Forces shooting his unhappy people. They may have once been happy people but being shot and killed tends to make most people unhappy.
A truce has been in effect for many days but the shooting seems to be continuing. I wonder if a person who is shot and killed during a truce is less dead than a person who is shot and killed before the truce was declared.
The Smartfella does not want to be too critical but I think the U.N. is guilty of not being explicit enough about what their observers are supposed to observe.
Syrian Security Forces General’s announcement to his troops:
It appears that the United Nations is interested in observing how we kill our minions. Three hundred U.N. Observers have started arriving in Syria. Go get ‘em boys! Show them how good we are at doing what we are trained to do.
Strother Martin told Paul Newman in 1967 in Cool Hand Luke, "What we've got here is failure to communicate".
The U.N. should have explained that the observers are there to observe people standing upright and not to observe them falling down dead.
Want to read more of my nonsense about Syria? Click below to read what I blogged on January 19, 2012...
http://forii.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-got-to-be-worst-than-you-think.html
Would I kid u?
