Why the FUCK should we in this country give a fuck what Syria does to it's own people

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56. Vietnam wasn't engaged in genocide or chemical warfare on civilians.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/syria-behind-the-lines/does-syria-face-a-genocidal-future/


The agony of Syria couldn’t have been far from President Obama’s mind one morning last April when he visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a short ride across the National Mall from the White House, to announce a series of new policies aimed at arresting threats of genocide around the world.

“Anti-Alawite rage has been documented in reports of executions and by the Sunni slogan about a cleansed post-war Syria, ‘Christians to Beirut, Alawites to the grave!’”

“We need to be doing everything we can to prevent and respond to these kinds of atrocities, because national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your own people,” he said to applause. He lamented “a bitter truth – too often, the world has failed to prevent the killing of innocents on a massive scale. And we are haunted by the atrocities that we did not stop and the lives we did not save.”

Tens of thousands of Syrian civilians have died in the last year, and the pace quickens. The United States, United Nations, the Arab League and others have been ineffective in shielding civilians or penalizing their killers. Today, Washington is living with the “bitter truth,” surprisingly silent about the urgency of preventing or responding to mass atrocities.

A report last month by a former special adviser on Syria to the Obama administration underscores the stakes of the failure. Ambassador Frederic C. Hof found Syria hurtling towards “full blown sectarian warfare.” His report, commissioned by the Holocaust Museum, concludes: “Left on its current trajectory, Syria is on the path to state failure and sustained sectarian violence, featuring mass atrocities and cleansing that could amount to genocide in some areas.”