What Would You Do?

The Syrian government is killing it’s own people. Slaughtering them. What do you do?

Beware-This vid is pretty graphic

Other governments have slaughtered their own. The African continent is full of dead bodies that perished because government’s killed their own. Rwanda comes to mind, but there are others. The US has not done much to stop the killing in Africa.

After America was attacked, Bush started a war to overthrow Hussein. It made him unpopular and we are still mired in it. Hussein had tortured and killed his people for years.

During the Clinton administration, there was a genocide in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia. Eons old rivalries surfaced after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Clinton took awhile to act, but when he did he acted decisively and put an end to the genocide. Really was a memorable part of his administration.

Pol Pot ” target=”_blank”>killed millions in the Killing Fields in Cambodia back in the late 1970′s early 1980′s. America had left Vietnam and didn’t have the stomach to stop it. Plus, we were still in the Cold War and Cambodia wasn’t a big strategic item for the US.

China under Mao, and Russia under Stalin murdered plenty of innocents. North Korea starves it’s people and kills thousands more. Communism is just an excuse for brutal dictators to assert power and kill innocent individuals. The US really couldn’t go into China or Russia and put a stop to it. That would have lead to World War Three, Four and probably Five.

Of course, the most systematic killing was during World War Two with the Nazis and Jews. It’s ironic how many Holocaust deniers that exist today. Thank goodness Eisenhower recorded it and made sure evidence was preserved for history. We were lucky that Hitler made some boneheaded strategic decisions so that we could stop it. Of course, Roosevelt knew about the concentration camps but did nothing to stop it prior to 1944.

I don’t know the answer to Syria. Obama had no compunction and went into Libya when Ghadafi was murdering his own in the Arab Spring uprising. He stayed out of Egypt-but the Egyptian army stayed pretty quiet when Mubarak was overthrown.

NATO and other countries will not do anything. Only the US has the ability to go into Syria and stop the killing. The founding ideals of America carry us forward. Unlike the old Romans or other empires, we go in and clean up messes and then rebuild. We pretty much leave them alone.

It always surprises me how much faith people put in government. Governments take away your freedom, they infringe on your rights, and they oppress sectors that are opposed to them. I prefer the Founders’ view that people grant government certain rights so that they can be governed and prosper in a decent society.

There isn’t a lot of strategic/political/world value in stopping Syria. Only the human ones.

What do you do?

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