Kick and Goddamned R if you don't want to Attack Syria!

[yellowwoodII]

162. Standing By

I totally understand where you're coming from. I hate what I see of what is happening to these people, too.
Some of my friends have said must enter one war or another to "save somebody." I always ask them, "Which of your children are you willing to sacrifice?" If the answer is "None," then I ask them how they can ask some other mother or father to sacrifice his or her kid.
Think of the wars that we are currently in. Iraq. Afghanistan. Did you ever read about how many Iraqis have died after we enter a war to "save" them? And what kind of resolution have we brought to these countries/
Meanwhile, we just rack up some enemies in the Middle East.
When we enter these wars, we end up killing people, too.
Here's a quote from General Lane in regard to our bombing of Baghdad in 2003:
COL. W. Patrick Lane: You know, I really appreciate the care with which people are trying to avoid unnecessary deaths in the air targeting of all this stuff, but I’ve been in Bahgdad a lot. And when you look at where these targets were, right down near the central core of the city along the Tigris River, this is the densest part of the city.
It's all very frustrating, but maybe the United States can't fix everything.