What I saw today

I was driving past a road. (I may not be driving because I don't know how to. Possibly I was sitting and someone else was driving. Anyways skip the trivial details.) There were some huts by the road. Huge ones. There were many people in there. Oddly they were laid out in a grid fashion. It was too mysterious to be real. We pull over to stop by.
All of them were starving. Starving, sickening to near death. Too dead for moving any faster than microscopic speed. I also saw that they were all vomiting some kind of white fluid. May be because of hunger.
There was only one lady helping them all. I looked closely to find out who that may be. To more surprise she was my grandma. Coincidentally she had passed away last month. She said that there is only one benefactor for all the sick people. The help is not enough. People are getting starved and sick and dead every minute.
By this time I felt like throwing up. To such an extent that it broke my slumber and I got off my bed guilt ridden. Why is not anyone helping them? How can this we be this apathetic? How can this we be this blind to needy?
It was a ghastly dream. A nightmare some will say.
It was not a nice experience. I did not relish my breakfast today. But with time it faded and so did my desire to help and make the world better place. And I am back into the groove working for my PhD.

I am playing a dangerous game! But I don't thing it will be fatal.

Dogs of war

American president Obama says that international community's credibility is on the line. That we should not tolerate the use of chemical weapons being used by Syrian government. This non-toleration as per him means to air bomb 'military targets' in Syria. We all know what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan when they targeted 'military targets' in these two countries. So how many civilians died? Anyone keeping counts? There is some kind of number relevant in this context.

Iraq Body Count gives us documented civilian deaths '114,397 – 125,360'. Mind you this is only documented count. While all of them did not die from American bullets but the war made the environment conducive to cheap civilian deaths in bulk.
Similar numbers could be found for Afghanistan war.

With that kind of record on targeting 'military target' US senate will be voting to declare war on Syria. As if the country is not suffering enough torn in the midst of civil war. Moreover I read in passing in an article that the draft of resolution prepared for declaring war on Syria suggested it to be no boot operation. Which as I understand means that no soldiers lay foot on Syrian ground. You know what this reminds me of? This below.

 Less foot = less intelligence involved = more judgmental error. And each error in firing a bullet or bomb cannot be undone by Sorry,-I-didn't-mean-to-do-it. It is also relevant to mention the strategic location of Syria as a country it is on the Mediterranean coast of Asia minor. Suppose you want to bring anything, for example a gas pipeline, from Asia minor to Europe your best option would be through Syria. Not to mention that Syria also has considerable oil and gas reserves of interest to some. More here.

Well good luck cruel world. Social justice can kiss its ass. The big boss has the bigger stick. And as we know that guy with the bigger stick wins the fight. That is the kind of world we are living in. How beautiful, is it not!