RoadRunnerTR21 wrote:AndyC wrote:Let Syria sort itself out - we're not the world police.
I agree as well. If the rest of the world is not interested in doing anything about Syria why should we do anything? It's a waste of time and resources.
While there is no doubt that what has happened in Syria is terribly wrong, nothing we do will accomplish anything but creating one more group that will hate the USA for meddling in their affairs. Even among the ones that might possibly benefit from our action, many will still resent it. If you look back at our many attempts to intervene in other countries because of human rights issues over the last 50 years, it's pretty clear that we really didn't accomplish much at all. In most cases we simply expended billions of dollars in resources and human lives, only to have whatever gains we felt were made, erased as soon as we stopped providing the money and manpower to enforce OUR views. Even when the USA doesn't physically put boots on the ground, but supports one faction over another, we still engender the hate and resentment from the other group involved from then on. Unless there is an overwhelming worldwide consensus that action must be taken, and all those other countries are willing to step up and commit THEIR money and people in equal measure, then we need to stay out of it. In most of the interventions where there WAS a worldwide consensus, the actual responsibility for enforcing it quickly deteriorated to where it wound up being 90% USA and 10% "rest of the world", and we are the ones that all the resentment is focused on.