Obama's Syria

"Yes, the blood of hundreds of thousands of Syrians are going to be on the hands of the butchers who tortured those poor people, as well as the hand of those who did nothing to help them."

I am going to say something which will come as no surprise to many of you. The United Nations is a feckless bunch of bureaucrats who do nothing to maintain nor restore world peace. Why I am mentioning this? The United Nation's actions today are antithetical to the charter which established this worthless organization in 1945. It was set up right after World War II to keep atrocities from ever happening again. Wrong!

Most of us have know this fact for decades. The United Nations is as useless as a screen door on a submarine. Not our President however - he is one of the statists who thinks the social engineering the UN mandates is better than mint chip ice cream. But (and this is a big one) - as far as world peace keeping is concerned - the UN has unofficially deferred that to the US.

So what in the world happens then, when there is a huge humanitarian crisis in the world, and the President of the United States also decides to defer? Syria. And this is going to be a big part of Obama's legacy. Yes, the blood of hundreds of thousands of Syrians are going to be on the hands of the butchers who tortured those poor people, as well as on the hands of those who did nothing to help them.

Some might say, "Wait just a minute! What about Putin? Assad? ISIL? Should not they get some of the blame also?" The answer to those questions is yes. However, we can't control them - we can only control ourselves. Obama has been so fixated on Assad, and trying to get him out of power, he has missed the much bigger picture. And what about the "red line" Obama talked about in 2012? The chemical attack in 2013 certainly crossed that line. But we did nothing. And the only "red lines" which were left in Syria were the ones created by the blood of the innocents.

Now I am not a war monger. I really am not. But in world history, every now and again a villain, or group of villains, pop up which need to be dealt with. In other words, the world needs a "cop". We have seen it with Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Hussein, Pol Pot, Amin Dada, Assad and ISIL. We have seen what happens when the United States gets involved to stop genocide. And we have also seen what happens when the United States decides to take a pass.

Since 2011, when the civil war broke out, the people of Syria have been crying out to the world for help. Since then, close to a half million Syrians have either been killed or made into refugees. As the Syrians to this day continue to cry for help, the Obama Administration has answered the call by simply saying, "Sorry - help is not coming."