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We'll see. I'm leery about Syria. With as volatile as the market has been, if those missiles start flying, I think the market is in for a rough ride, some stocks excepted. I try to buy stocks that would be needed in any market but when the indexes are down, practically everything else is, too.

I got caught pretty bad in that 4-week downdraft, glad I hung in there. A new rally would be nice. I've no idea what the market will do if we do bomb Syria.

As soon as I can find the time, I'm going to read up on options. But I'm afraid to day trade too much because it's hard to pick suitable candidates and, even then, some days the charts are flat or slope down.

Sudden major international conflicts in decades past were very profitable for me, mainly because they happened with G H Bush and G W Bush and the markets were momentarily spooked by a fanatically crazed opposition press and I was able to cash in when the press was proved wrong.

Nothing much happened with Clinton's misadventures that the press fawned over: Sarajevo, Iraq, Mogadishu, Haiti-- they never accomplished anything but at least they never got out of hand. This time we got our Military (alone) backing AlQeda against an entrenched regime supported by a Russian missile frigate.

I'm imagining kind of a fast'n'furious on steroids and thinking that maybe my stocks to cash should be followed by cash to food in the basement...