I posted this on Facebook and got such a response that I thought I would re-post it here.
I have been reading with great interest about our growing
itch to involve ourselves in the Syrian civil war. We are presently approaching
the point where Congress and the Senate will approve the President’s request to
punish the President of Syria for (supposedly) gassing his own people.
This
brings three questions to my mind.
First, who are we gonna hit? I don’t see
good guy-bad guy here. I see bad guy-worse guy here. They keep changing
positions, and none of them at all like us very much.
Second, we will go in there
on the pretext that gassing people is a bad thing. Isn’t the implication there,
then, that dropping bombs on them is acceptable?
And third, I don’t have enough
of the facts. I certainly don’t trust any news service. Everyone seems to have his
own spin on what is or should be the proper course of action, based on inside
information only a select few posess. For whatever reason, Russian President
Vladimir Putin seems to be the only mature intelligent voice out there, and
that truly does scare me. Truth is, nobody wants us there. And, as bad as it
is, it’s a civil war. My thinking is that as long as the conflict remains
within the borders of Syria, it would be in our best interests to stay out
of it. On the other hand, when have we ever done that?
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