We need to clean our house before we complain that other people's houses are dirty.
100 people dieing in the world is not worth international conflict. A few thousand died in 9-11 and we fixed it by killing 100,000s and wrecking our liberties. Aside, we have a pretty poor track record for international police actions, we tend to fail.
Did any of these end well?
Korea
Vietnam
Bosnia
Iran
Iraq
Afghanistan
Are any of them really over?
Regardless of how you feel about Syria, we just don't seem to have what it takes to do international policing and don't seem to have ethics when it comes to domestic policing. We need to debate our role in policing.
Also we seem to forget with our rush into international policing that we may actually have another war soon, a country could really attack us with big weapons in stead of poison letters and building bombs and if we have tapped our military and our people, they just wont be ready for the next real conflict.
If we're worried about the 100 people that were killed by poison gas, why aren't we more worried about the other 89, 900 people that have been killed by conventional methods?
We can't go in and surgically fix these places with the scalpel method just to say we tried... it doesn't work out for us in the end. We also don't have the stomach for war anymore. Time to let the entire region play itself out while strengthen our defense until the day that protecting our own soil becomes the only priority. That day will come soon enough.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
Seeing the National Guard being used to assist with the fire fighting efforts has been a refreshing change from seeing their death notices from the Middle East.
