Al-Assad will pay heavy price for only showing ‘courage’ to babies in cradle: Turkish PM

[John2]

50. As an American,

I disagree. I don't owe Israel anything. Israel's very existence depends on the United States. It did not exist until after World War II. And if you want to find existence before that, you have to go back to the Ancient World, even before the times of the Roman Empire. Even then, it was Palestine. Whatever Israel did was for their own self interest and not even for the United States. We do not need Israel to fight our battles.

And as far as the 70,000 casualties you mention, it is easy to cloud facts. Even in our own Civil War, the losing side accused our President for causing the Deaths of over 600,000 Americans to preserve the Union. Of course that was not the case, because the participants on both sides were fighting for a cause. Your statement suggests, that the forces fighting for Assad, were murdered by him also. Among those 600,000 Americans that died in that War, some of them fought against slavery, while at the same time, many on the opposing side fought against what they thought was an oppressive Government.