I have compassion for the civilians. My one thought, though, is that this regime and people have exported terror in their name. They have a violent history spanning thousands of years. If you want to take a pre-biblican society and see what it looks like in the modern era, this is it. Its not that they deserve it so much as the war they exported has come home to them.

Derek-381097 "They have a violent history spanning thousands of years". What does it means, they are violent by nature, they are used to it, it doesn't matter if they die, the West doesn't have a violent history spanning thousands of years, what do you mean?

I mean exactly what I said. You really want to compare the modern West to Syria? That would be a fantastic stretch of the imagination and is really funny.

Great job. Those sanctions and "demands" are really taking effect, just like Iran and North Korea. /sarcasm/

I wonder where the un-armed U.N. peacekeepers were at when the explosions occurred.

If you want to place blame, see who the victims are. Are they Alawite? Are they Sunni? THEN you will know the perpetrators!

Yeah close your eyes and hide and maybe it will all go away , "right?' cause we could not do anything about it.....

Why would we want to do anything about it? As long as the tribes stay busy killing each other, it keeps them too busy to worry about finding Americans to kill.

Sure its their Government and to think they once trusted them.

We only get involved if their are US interests at stake. Thats why we are all through the "oil states" in the Middle East. Securing oil for US future needs. If we really cared about peoples lives we would have stepped in during the Rhowanda genocide. Or work side by side with the Mexican Military to wipe out the drug cartels. There are too many examples of the US getting involved in foriegn conflicts that benefit our interests only. Human life should be our #1 priority. Unfortunately we are playing "Risk" in the Middle East to maintain control of the "oil states" for our future benefit instead.

We only get involved if their are US interests at stake

That is correct, and exactly what our foreign policy should be. The people of this region have been doing this for thousands of years and will be doing it for thousands more.

Wouldn't it be just wonderful if we could round up Putin, Junior Jong Il, Assad and the rest of the control freaks who'd rather see an entire civilization exterminated than give up a single ounce of control and pack them off to their own Isle De Control Freak? What the hell is wrong with people who would stand by and watch innocent men, women and children be blown to bits by a control freak leader?

Yes. We must get involved. This is what Americans all stand for...human rights to freedom. Any American who'd stand in ignorance of such heinous, needless bloodshed just to keep one single man in power has no conscience.

Assad is a liar and is doing what ALL power freaks do...blaming his victims. Without that military force behind him, he's cow dung. How dare one single man stand in the way of the human right to freedom?

So the US as the "moral high ground" nation should just sit and watch while innocent people get systematically slaughtered? Cool man. Yeah, no money in it right? If only Rhownda had oil, we would have been there. Thats cold Thomas

Sorry, dissapointed, but I agree with Thomas. It's not for our govt to spend our tax money "helping" countries in which we have no national interest. You're worried about "Oh, the humanity"? Go over there yourself or spend your own money.

It may be cold, but it's the reality of the world we live in. We have neither the money nor the will to be the go-to nation for every injustice out there.

AG99....You already DO spend your tax dollars in foreign countries...to be exact? $12 billion Big Oil will use to expand their Middle eastern oil production facilities. But let's not worry about innocent people dying when the blowhards swaggering around the globe have more of our taxpayers dollars to keep their slimeball industry in place, right?

So we should spend even more money we don't have on Syria? You're right, ewent, I don't give a crap about the Syrians, especially now the rebels have descended to the typical ME strategy of bombing their own people. I don't much care for any foreign aid spending and Big Oil obviously doesn't need our taxpayer money either.

So, AG, what you're saying is if a gang of people started running through your state or town hacking and cutting down people to death with machetes and you knew that an outside entity could come in and save you and your family and tens of thousands of other people you would prefer not because they had no financial or strategic interest in it? Really? Try being on the recieving end of the hacking of a machete and I'm sure you would make an exception for your own.

I would be most proud of this country if we along with other nations would spend some money saving men women and children from getting slaughtered like animals as opposed to spending it rebuilding countries that keep trying to kill us at every turn just to have a bit more strategic placements to control oil.

Ewent & dissapointed.....The people of the regions you want to send help to do not hold the same values for life, freedom or independence as those of the west. All of these "revolutions" are simply regime change and tribal warfare. Sorry, there is no good guy and bad guy, just tribes settling scores and vying for power. The US can't fix it and should no waste our time trying. When the dust settles, they will all be back to dancing in the streets every time an American dies and burning our flag

Thomas Jefferson..How do you know what values for life these people hold? That's an obtuse statement to make when you consider that no one ever believes it's okay for a control freak to blow them apart. No one ever wants their children blown to bits because they don't value their childrens lives.

Yours is yet another amazingly keen view into how the narcisissts in this country think. Don't spend money to help others who beg for help. Just lavish those who don't need a damn dime more. Anyone who worked for those first months at Ground Zero after 9/11 would kick the asses of people with that "let them help themselves" right wing routine. Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave.

dissapointed, you misunderstand. Sure, I would want to be helped, as I imagine the Syrian rebels do now, but those outside powers would have no obligation to help me, especially if it's not in their national interest.

I'm looking at reality, not some idealistic world utopia. And frankly, I have zero interest in helping a country that hates us, supports terrorism against our allies, and with which we have no cultural ties.

To both sides arguing here ...

We should be there ... conquering and establishing the American Empire. Both sides can be settled this way, appeased even.

Thomas and AG, I understand your points and I even agree with you a bit. It's hard to say what we should do every time something bad happens in the world. I sometimes feel we should just take care of home instead of medling in world affairs. Just costs us american lives and money. I just think sometimes an adult needs to step in and say enough. Shoot a gun in the air so to speak and get people to stop killing each other for a damn minute. I know it's easier said than done. It's hard to watch the bad things people do to each other. Wish it was an easy fix.

Just watch the fun. We have no roles! Iraqi wars were enough.

Our enemy No. 1 Sunni al-Qaida and Muslim brotherhood are supporting Syrian rebels.

Highly despotic, autocratic, corrupt and bigoted Sunni Saudi and their Arab League members are behind the rebellion against one of the best ME rulers (best among the bad lot), Assad.

As these Saudi and co are responsible for all world problems including oil price manipulations. It will be good if Assad and Shiites join hands and blow up the Syrian rebels and Saudis!

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said the bombing was "reprehensible and unacceptable," but added that it would not change U.S. demands for the Syrian government to implement Annan's peace plan.

Our government has them scared now with such strong language. The gooberment can't change a damn thing over there with these muslime savages.

Its Russia and China standing in the way that prevents outside help from getting to these people. a bad political decision on the matter could prove disastrous.

when it comes to oil they pay .45 cents on the dollar in taxes not including the tax at the pump the government is making big bucks on big oil, while your geek companies are dodging and paying only 13% of the billions they rake in, maybe that's part of the reason they get more consideration then others its big money that runs the worlds economy would you like to try living in a world without a good economy? you may have the opportunity if things keep going the way they are. that region has always been somewhat unstable. some of you say they only want freedom well I don't know what the Muslim interpretation of the word means is that freedom to live under a council of clerics and do as you are told as opposes living under a dictator and doing as you are told etherway its not freedom, they will always have a reason to kill each other its the way its always been. as long as you have the wing nuts out there you will have factions divided and at each others throats. you better worry about what is happening at home and let them settle this. they can stop any time they want. the world is getting spookier by the day class warfare, social tension, drug wars, gang violence, illegal aliens, trade disputes, terrorist, economic failure, the list goes on and on and people still want to be politically correct, wake up to the fact that things are getting out of control. the world is a bomb and the fuse is burning. the peoples of the world are to diverse to get along, we need to focus on our own problems not Syria's. they can handle this if everyone else would just back off, that means Russia too! and when the violence stops in one area it starts up in another because the wing nuts are still spinning wildly and spewing their BS. if things keep going the way they are it won't be long and we will have enough unrest here at home that we wont have to look elsewhere for these nightmares.

...and these are the people we want to substitute the current Syrian government with, not sure about if that is the right move.

Hotticket: It is the the idiots in the US gov't- UK, France, Israel- that are responsible for escalating the conflict. The US never denounces a civil war it can facilitate and just watch half a world away.

The Middle East should put life in America in perspective. We call each other Nazi's based on personal views of gay marriage while the middle east blows itself up everyday.

The ability of Americans to act like the sky is falling here everyday is laughable.

US Special Forces arent known for blowing up innocent people with bombs like that; islamo-fascists are. why dont you start there; or do you prefer delusions?

bodivide- -what I am writing- is the Syrian rebels are planting the car bombs/bombs-remote propelled grenades (they have Libyan rebel vet fighters since the start from Turkey)...the Spec.ops joint war game exercise in Jordan at the Syrian border bespeaks something else either threat of intervention or intervention actuelle.

mimi: you may have a message somewhere in your post, but unless you can write plainly and intelligibly it comes across as gibberish. By the way, how are you such an expert? Where is the proof? Perhaps you actually support the Assad regime and are writing this post in a highly untruthful manner.

Mimi, can you say... BONG!!

Last week in an interview on NPR, one of their journalists in Syria described exactly how Assad is keeping control of the country he believes he and only he owns. She interviewed a Syrian who spoke in the native tongue and was interpreted but in the back ground you could hear Syrians begging for help from the outside world.

Syrian civilians want their freedom. Anyone who lives in 2012 wants that. Only control freak men think they can still play Ghenghis Khan and get away with that kind of despotic inhuman brutality.

Genghis Khan has nothing to do with this. Please keep your history straight, this is how prejudicial hate starts, with simple and arrogantly made mistakes.

Sunni Saudis, Kuwaiti, UAE and their puppets are imagining that they are too smart.

Assad father took a few years to put down the Sunni Islamic religious Nazis rebellion.

All Shiites should join hands and blow up once for all the greatest trouble creators, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE and their puppets in ME.

It was a blunder of the US and allies to save the Sunni Saudi Islamo fascists by 1991 and 2003 Iraqi wars.

Mimi is just pointing out that there are boots on the ground, I'm pointing out that our presence is a mistake, how many of you read the book of Revelations, I don't like that corner of the world and what is going on everywhere else, its all prophecy and very scary. does the word Armageddon sound familiar, look it up, read the prophecy, It might scare some sense into you. its a location not a event in itself but a location of a event.

D-Buck - The bible is a book - it's not a calendar, an almanac, a list of coming atttractions or anything else; It's a book. That said; I know people who have based their lives around movies.

D'Buck,

It is with great displeasure that I inform you that the location of the complex city of armageddon, a fortified bluff top complex located at the ancient crossroads of three religious lands, has had it's share of wars, occupations and savage backstabbing and suicide turn-of-events. It is however with great and joyous pleasure that I tell you that these events took place well over three thousand years ago and the last was well over one thousand years ago. The so called book of revelations is not a note to future events but rather the revelations learned by past events. Indeed even the writers of the Bible included that the Book was mainly a Historical Chronicle and set of Lessons learned from the Past.

Food for thought ... if the so claimed Disciples could write a new Bible, why can't you? If they are not burning in an abyssal pit, well, why would we?

Lore and Wisdom.

ROTFLMAO!

Barabas: your head is in the clouds. You need to come down to earth and look at reality.

taxpayer your're an idiot, who cares if her spelling is correct or not, get a real life. This is not a classroom. I understand exactly what mimi is saying

It's beginning to look like the root of division in this country is judgmentalism on steroids by super control freaks with superiority complexes. Enough already. We all put our pants on, one leg at a time. These Syrian civilians are living hell. When you do, maybe you'll realize your link to all other humans in this world.

Barabas I sure wish God would get off his @$$ and Rapture you wackos off this planet. Things would sure be more peaceful.

Don't put your religious hocus pocus.

Without knowing much, you people add to the mess.

Jeff 1592116 & Taxpayer 834311:

Boys, settle down now, the Holy Bible teaches us: "To love thy neighbour as thy self." The problem is NOT the Bible Believers! Yes, a lot of people claim to be Christians, but they are not Christians!

To be a Christian means to be "Born Again, Washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ, to trust Christ as your Lord and Saviour." Many just claim the title! Many are not Christians as they claim to be! So "REPENT!"

Bathing in the blood of another human being as a religion, wasn't that called vampirism?

Don't worry too much.

Shame and Islam don't blend well.

so mrs smarty so what if assad leaves office what would happen next ?? all minorities would be slaughtered and you would set back woman' rights in syria 50 years !!

yeah right 101: Hope you can see all sides.

In Saudi Arabia woman's rights are 1000 years back.

?????? lol

OR

left-wing Syrian Baathist terrorism-supporting REGIME has come full circle and is getting a dose of what it's been exporting for decades

DJ001, how does one plunder waistland? I do not know what the rest of contries/ organizations on your list are doing, but Israel is sitting and watching. It knows perfectly well that the rebels in Syria are not likely to be very friendly towards it. Is Israel happy that Assad is weakend? Yes. Is it giving support to the rebels? He11 no!!

Israel and Turkey and the Arab Emirites all working together ... to plunder the Syrians? I know this war of the middle world has been going on quite awhile but what crusader book written by a modern symbologist gave you this piece of riddle from chapter twenty-two and was it before or after they saw a reverse angel image in the Dome of the Rock cieling only visiable by moonlight on christmas day?

The US wants the lone foreign Russian naval base in Tartus, and Israeli agents in Syria's gov't. The US is behind all of this violence. Syrian "rebels" are coming from Kosovo. Thank the USA for the thugs.

libya has MUCH more oil than Syria; obama's war for oil in libya wont help the poor syrians

And the Libyan oil is a main supply for our "friends" in Europe. So Obama "saved" our European "friends" and "freed" (well sort of, the Muslim Brotherhood handover is hardly going to be their saving grace) the Libyan people all in one fell swoop. And took a victory lap to make sure everyone knew it.

Because NATO was invited in by the Libyan rebels and action was authorized by both the Arab League and the UN. No such authorization has been forwarded for Syria, probably because the Arabs weren't too happy with the overwhelming level of support we gave the Libyan rebels.

I'm not so sure NATO would agree to intervene this time anyway.

jean valjean....Are the militaries bombings and shellings cowardly? They target towns where women and children are....Before you make a comment learn what you are commenting about....People around the world are changing and it's the youth who no longer want staus quo...the lack of jobs and opputunities....The world have to many poor and to few rich...It's as if we are living in sodem and gammora

Trooper...Thank you. Your post is on the mark. The biggest problem around the globe today is that those who have enjoyed power into their old age simply cannot abide handing over the reins to younger people. We have the same attitudes in this country. Old autocrats who still think only their opinions can be the right opinions. As senior citizens, ours is merely to guide, not to dictate. Ours is to allow youthful progress that best fits the needs of a changing world our younger adults will live in long after we are gone.

No matter what else in this life we older adults do, our examples are always the most impressionable. Set the wrong one and a generation of misguided youth follows in our footsteps.

Despotic dictators who continue to believe they can hold back the world by denial of the human right to freedom prove how mentally unbalanced they really are. Stifle the human right to freedom and you cause revolt. Assad will burn in hell for his lies and murder of his own people.

It's as if we are living in sodem and gammora

And the support of the President yesterday confirmed that is the plan.

I am afraid the answer to your question is no. The situation in Syria has now become a zero sum game. Assad knows that the oposition will not settle for anything less that his removal from power, with out power he is almost certenly dead. Both side now have little to nothing to loose. I fear a great deal more blood will be shed before it is all over.

coyotehunter - most of these countries have more automatic weapons in the hands of civilians than we have here in the states. And, it is not illegal for them to own automatic weapons.

Big Max...Most adult Americans refrain from childish made-up names a kindergarten kid would be too embarrassed to lay claim to. Grow up. McCain lost and even if he had won, your posts would still be as childish.

Hey ewent how is the weather up there on your "high horse".

Ray .......

You've got to understand.

There are more gay and lesbian votes out there than Syrian votes.

@RAY

CAUSE "GAY MARRIAGE " invloves our country directly maybe ? food for thought...

What does gay marriage affect? It only affect the individuals and their benifits.. And to say Syria has no direct influences, is naive and ignorant.

And may I ask what is the genius plan for removing these nations from the planet? Mass murder, perhaps sci-fi devices that will just pluck the land and place it in an envirobubble on the moon? The answer is, remove the cradle of human life from the world and replace it with, oh dang, hmmm, inbred white people of course! Wrong channel wrong programming.

lore

how is your comment any better than mine ? inbred ? im not inbred..maybe you are !

These people in these countries are savages and murderers...they will hopefully just keep killing each-other as they all ready are !

get it fool ?

Islamic countries are changing our society from the inside. ACT for America founder Brigitte Gabriel - Islamic infiltration into American Education. Change a country from the inside...just like Hitler

Where I agree with a majority of this text, Rocks, I am pained to inform you that the American people have never been strong and unified outside of sparse allotments of time, such as when we are winning a war or pulling allies out of the muck. I still stand behind the idea of final conquest and the proper establishment of an American Empire.