Saving Syria?

I watched the American senate debate yesterday, about whether they should attack the loathsome Syrian regime, with interest.

They used lots of emotive words and repeated the horrors witnessed by us all, of young children with their throats burning because of the Sarin attack.  Any sane individual would be sickened and angry about such injustice against innocent children. We should act, now that chemical warfare has been used against these people… Or should we?

While I listened to the debate and the repeated emotive words used about the chemical attack I couldn’t help but think "here we go again!"

While we are on the subject of the chemical attack please forgive me for being emotive in my description.

Why is a chemical attack any worse than a mother having to witness her one-year-old child with its arms and legs blown off by bombs that have been dropped mistakenly on an over-crowded suburb? Or seeing a mass of pulp and blood where her child once stood after standing on a land mine?

Why is it worse than a parent running with the limp body of their child in their arms with its spine shattered and its bowels protruding from its stomach after being hit by a stray bullet? Why is it worse than a mother having to sit helplessly as their small child with a distended stomach and covered in flies loses its fight for life through starvation? And why is it worse because they are children? These images are sickening when witnessed no matter what the age of the victim. There is no good way of murdering someone!

What if you do remove the regime that’s in power now? Who will take over? Do we know who the rebels are? How do we know they are not just the same as the regime that’s in power now? I’ll bet my house that they are!

The Syrian government needs America to attack, because they know that it will bring other countries in on their side, hence the chemical attack. Thousands of lunatic ill-educated young Muslim men from around the world will be whipped up into a frenzy of Jihad! They will relish the strange belief of slaughter and be slaughtered.

The Middle East problem is a complex ancient problem, and if they didn’t have significant oil reserves they would be left to sort it out amongst themselves. If it were really about crimes against humanity why hasn’t America moved in against the evil little Hitler-moustachioed creep, Mugabe, in Zimbabwe? No oil! What about Burma? No oil! What about China? What about every other country in the world that has a dictator? And while we are on the subject, what makes Western democracy the righteous way? I have to admit that I personally favour it over other systems but it should also be challenged and be willing to change.

Of course we shouldn’t sit by and let such injustices take place, but every action has a reaction. Any measures taken must be by the whole of the international community, not just by one or two gung-ho countries.

And the international community should realise that it has a duty to protect innocent people from tyranny. They have to put aside differences and work together and not take a lifetime discussing the problem!

People should have the right to freedom of speech and to live without fear of reprisals by the government that is in place to serve them as a whole.

And we in the international community have a duty to see that freedom is given as a fundamental right to all!