Friday, August 29, 2014

Schizophrenia as Explanation for U.S. Policy Toward Syria


7,500 miles separate the cities of Damascus and Los Angeles.  Despite the vast geographical divide the people of each region are tied together via their central state.

To summarize Washington, D.C.'s policy toward Syria:

  1. A decade long regime of sanctions prohibiting the people of Syria trading for American made goods.  
  2. Two years of supplying automatic weapons to Syria's "moderate Islamic militants" in order to topple the Assad-led state of Syria. 
  3. Two week long bombing campaigns in Iraq in order to kill "extremist Islamic militants" (members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
  4. Newly announced drone surveillance flights over Syria in order to spy on ISIS.   

According to the Mayo Clinic the results of schizophrenia include:
hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior. 
Can we see a connection between the actions of the U.S. central state and the symptoms of schizophrenia?  

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