Issues concerning Syria with the civil dispute and the question of the Syrian government using excessive force against rebels is all over the media. Allegations of the Syrian Government using chemical agents to neutralize rebel forces has the U.S. government in an uproar. President Obama has stated that if Syria does not hand over chemical weapons to the U.N., the U.S. will start a military strike on Syria. These statements and support from the major players like Russia and China, "convinced" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to agree to the terms of relinquishing and destroying the stock pile at the timeline set by the U.N.
With this matter, there is a pattern that I really don't understand. Maybe because I'm not a player in that game but why the hell does the U.S. always have be the first to intervene. I love the country I was born in despite its mistakes. The "freedoms" we experience on a daily basis is a luxury most of us take for granted, but this constant involvement of the U.S. is something that's a little embarrassing.
In this case my small mind can only relate the civil war of Syria with the average domestic violence of a crazy couple in your apartment building. Sure you hear that dude beating the hell out of that lady, but what do you think? "If he keeps beating her, she'll get tired of it and leave." So instead of calling the cops you just play the passive aggressive role of asking them to keep the noise down. What you don't do is arm the lady with a bat for next time they fight. Because if you do, you're only making the situation worse. If the lady doesn't beat him, he might kill her. Thus America aiding Syrian rebels only made the situation worse resulting in over 1400 deaths of the rebel force.
I see the point of disarming Syria from its chemical warfare tactics but did so many people have to die because of the so called "morality" that the U.S. expects but doesn't follow. Syrian officials might even face criminal charges in a world court because of those actions, as they should, but is the U.S. really the one to point out the Syrian mistakes after countless mistakes the U.S. has made over the last 12 years of invading countries based on lies?
I'm like you, I really don't care about what the world comes to, as long as it doesn't come to my door. The issue I have is that why can't our government let other countries work stuff out for themselves? Why do we feel the need to police the world when the U.N. (joke) already has that role. Ive heard alot of my friends say things like, "lets bomb them all" and I'm confused as to why should we even be there.
In my mind, America isn't liked by most of the world. Other countries take our culture as a novelty act and we could really give a shit but there's this pretentious part about it. Like we know we suck culturally but we still do nice things for other people. So the more countries we act like we're helping, we get a piece of what we used to be, back. Personally I don't care if we suck just so long as we aren't a sucker by being "Captain Save a Country."
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