I agree. Something has been cooking on low since he sent drones over there earlier this month. Now, in the past two days He has expanded surveillance flights there too. Which means to me, that we were already doing them and now just increasing them. I also read somewhere this morning that WE will not fight 'with Syria' and that we would only be playing around that border with Iraq ...we all know however, that we simply don't know what we will end up doing or where we will end up bombing. I do know that we do not want to appear to be any kinds of friend to our allies enemies. I just learned that today too .. .. ;) damn.
It's a shame that your nephew goes but WE ALL understand about the lure of a little bit more financial safety net, particularly in these days when we have one political party who is doing everything they can to continue to kill the middle class that we used to have. There really isn't much of a choice for families these days .. they feel very pressured to take the work for the extra financial security. They have to.