Just as bush did in Afghanistan, Obama has stirred up a war in Syria that cannot be ended in any way satisfactory to the west.

The attempt was to do what began way back in Afghanistan when the CIA successfully stirred up a rising by the Taliban against the USSR. It worked, at first, as the USSR was beaten. They did the same thing in Libya, adding the No Fly Zone as a device to bomb to do huge damage to that country, reducing the ability of Libya to be a nuisance in any way.

I have to talk about this because last night, as the whole picrure formed, I was so angry I couldn't sleep. I gave it up at four a.m. to go back to my computer.

New Brunswick, like many other regions in canada and the US, has standardized testing in its schools.It is claimed that these tests show the quality of the schools, and results are often posted publicly to see which schools are best. The theory behind it is that competition sill spur students and teachers to greater efforts.