I really don't think bombing Syria would hurt anyone

[The Straight Story]

30. And doing nothing will save how many lives?

I swear, Assad could fire up camps and herd people into them and gas them all day long and people would just shrug it off.

"Well, if we try to stop him, someone could get hurt!!"

Next time I witness someone trying to kill some folks, like say a shooter in a school, I sure won't call the cops because that might result in the shooter killing more people.

Obama was CORRECT - if we don't do something about assad's use of chemical weapons then we are sending a message to anyone who wants to use them that no one cares, gas away.

I am not a pro-war person, but I am also not a person who is willing to see our country do nothing when we could be doing something ---- and don't say we have not tried, we have tried already through the UN:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14703995
and
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2013/08/timeline-chemical-weapon-reports-syria

We have worked with the UN elsewhere as well, ala the Congo where 5.4 million people have died - and the UN has been there for 14 years.

It IS our business because if we allow this crap to pass why in the hell should anyone, anywhere in the world, take the whole idea of not using chemical weapons seriously???

And to boot - there are more people upset that WE might act in a way to take out some strategic military targets than there are people upset over what assad has done.

It is truly sickening at times watching people turn a blind eye like they have in the past (which I thought we had learned from) to the gassing of civilians.

No wonder some dictators can get people to go along with the wholesale slaughter of others - those with power will ignore it, solves their issues by getting rid of undesirables, and the only hope at helping is portrayed as worse than gassing (hey, if we help them, someone might get hurt - we don't want people to get hurt, well...unless it is their owner/dictator hurting them, then we are ok with it).

A sad world indeed when we get more outraged over dog fighting, cats being killed, etc and blow off the slaughter of men, women, and children by chemical weapons.

But that is the state of 'progressive' America today.

Obama is not bush. This is not Iraq. But people refuse to see that and replace Obama in their mind with bush.

All to easy and in the end, bush really did win because he convinced us to do nothing when we should do something.