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Monday, August 26, 2013
Syria...A No-Win Situation
As U.N.
inspectors try and find evidence on the use of chemicals to mount a case
against the Syrian regime, or perhaps the rebels as a remote possibility,
Syrian President Assad continues to deny that he used chemical weapons against
his own people. U.S. President Obama stated a year ago that if Assad used
chemical weapons, it would result in action. It was, as Obama stated, an action
that would ‘cross the red line’. Now, President Obama is between a rock and a
hard place, damned if he gets involved and damned if he doesn’t. Chances are,
no matter what the U.S., Britain & France decide to do or not do, that part
of the world has been and will continue to be dominated by power struggles
rooted in misguided interpretations of religious ideology. Perhaps it is time
western countries stop trying to change the world one country at a time. As
callous as it may sound, let troubled countries sort through their own problems
as intervention will not really change anything, except for the players. Bombs
are still going off in Iraq. As the remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan
prepare to leave, the Taliban is getting ready to move back in and pick up
where they left off. The seemingly good intentions of western countries to
bring their democratic value systems to the less fortunate seldom generate
long-term positive results.
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