The world has been informed in great detail about the events that have taken place in Syria over the past 3 weeks. The appalling acts of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad have left the United Nations in a very difficult predicament regarding what to do. Since that time the main course of action has been a "strike" delivered my the US military without setting any American boots on Syrian soil. Best of both worlds right? We end al-Assad's regime and don't risk placing American soldiers in harms way. Unfortunately the world is a much more complicated place than we always envision it.
This evening at 8, President Obama addressed the Nation regarding the crisis. Over the course of the speech he repeatedly cited a quote from a letter that he received from an ordinary US citizen, that the United States are the "world policemen." Obama's denial of that terminology may seem out of line certain people, as the assumption is that whenever a catastrophe occurs we need to step in. When Obama said that my father (Republican) replied with an explitive. But if we think about it, did any US army members step foot in Darfur? No only emergency aid provided by the UN was deployed, more info here. Or what about Rwanda in 1994? The only troops deployed there weren't even given weapons, they were there simply to help the displced citizens, reported here.
People across the country express and foster the misleading assumption that the United States is the "World's Policemen." But in this situation some type of action needs to be taken. Russia's recent "agreement" to extract all chemical weapons from Syria is the primary option, but if that falls through, who knows what Assad's regime will do next? The congressional vote regarding wheter to strike Syria has been postponed until Russia's decision has been made, summarized here. If Russia backs out, all eyes will be on the United States, and regardless of what happens with Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, Assad's atrocities cannot go unpunished
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