I watch a little of the fireworks coverage last night, and as I watched, it occurred to me that I've become deeply cynical of any of our foreign affairs dance moves. Always, questions of motive arise that drag the issue du jour into the focus of my own dim lens. I have little confidence in the "humanitarianism" of any of the sewage that gushes from Washington. The press owns some of the guilt for mispeceptions, but I can't guess how much. Maybe none, maybe all. Conspiracy theories are overblown speculations, too complicated to be workable considering the number of actors that would be involved, human nature being what it is, and tiny likelihood that the necessary secrecy could be maintained. Unless there's a Big Brother supercomputer running the show from the background it's less than possible that such monolithic cooperation could be established or sustained.