THE SYRIAN CRISIS
Revolutions feed on CHAOS. The objective is to stir everything up to such a degree that no one knows who the enemy is or who to support. No one can tell who is winning or who is losing or who even started the war in the beginning. Each side points to the other and refuses to back down or let go or move on. Nothing makes any sense, and it’s impossible to sort out any of the facts. There are no “good guys” around, and no good options.
For two years, most of us have refused to get involved in Syria’s revolution. Because we always seem to get “burned” whenever we intervene in civil wars, most of us are conditioned now to just look away from all their suffering and hope that either someone else does something or they resolve it themselves. But no matter how much we hope the Syrian conflict will stop soon, it just keeps escalating. Now we are dealing with chemical weapons of the worst kind. What more has to happen, and how many more lives will be lost, until we finally do something??
This should not be a “political” decision, and countries should not be evaluating whether it is in their own best interests to intervene or not. When two million people have fled the country, five million people are displaced within the country, and 110,000 people have been killed, this is a humanitarian issue. The current regime has proven time and again that they do not care about the people, and the opposition is no better. They are going to fight it out until the bloody end and will take everyone down with them. There is no reasoning with them, and all diplomatic avenues have been exhausted.
Whether we decide to intervene militarily or just step up humanitarian aid, it is imperative that the international community comes together now and does the right thing for the innocent people who are suffering. We need to put aside our differences with each other and come up with a plan of how we are going to help those who can’t help themselves right now. If this was happening in our own country, we would want someone outside to come in and do this for us.
We need to do something, and we need to do it now.
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