It was rather disturbing to watch the news last night and see what was going on in Syria. Their internal struggle is heart-wrenching.....but do we interfere???
I watched as some American politicians talked about intervention. I was stunned to think that they could even suggest this without any real facts being evident about who used them or what it was. Ask yourself who are the leading manufacturers of these chemical weapons? Why would the world need these chemical weapons? And why would any scientist in their right mind even think about developing chemical weapons. This type of weapon is the "New Bomb". It is something that once unleashed, can't be taken back or fixed.
I watched as foreign leaders talked about how irate they were about chemical weapons being used and that the world needed to step in. The PM for Australia was talking in an interview about it. Australia is one of the leading countries for Uranium. Yes the kind that can be deadly.
My question I guess is WHY? Why is it that people feel we need to step in? How is this any different than what corporations are doing to people every day all around us? What am I talking about you ask??? Well there is Bopal, India where a corporation was negligent and killed thousands. Did a foreign power step in there? Or the Love Canal in the USA where contaminated land is still not fit for human residency because of the toxins that will linger for hundreds of years and has left hundreds sick or dead. Do we hit the ground to enforce law there? What about the Russian government cloud seeding to stop radioactive clouds from reaching Moscow causing it to drop on unsuspecting people elsewhere without warning them? When depleted uranium was used in Iraq killing thousands, did we rally the world powers into a frenzy and step in?
No we didn't.
So you have to ask yourself, why is stepping into Syria any more important than what I mentioned in the last paragraph? It is simple really....geographical location. Why do you think countries like Russia are there supporting this dictator?
Syria has a problem....a really big one. It does not help that the masses there are violent and volatile. It does not help that the economics of the country isn't great. It does not help that their leader is a dictator and driven it into the ground with poverty, but ask yourself this question before you lace up the boots of our military and send them off packing. If you had political unrest in your country, would you want a foreign military intervening? If you were fighting a bloody civil war, would you want another country stepping in?
Who dropped the chemicals? An important question needs to be answered before anyone goes anywhere to do anything for anyone.
People are saying that Obama needs to step over the line he mentioned last year. The line that defined the use of chemical weapons. I say what goes on in Syria is none of his business, or anyone else's concern. I am sure you feel this is cold and callus, that I have no sense of humanity or sympathy. Maybe you are right, but maybe, just maybe you are wrong.
I have great sympathy for the normal man, woman and child that is caught in any political nightmare that movers and shakers of the world create. I have great sympathy for a people that have been driven to fighting for their freedom and a simple standard of living that will allow them to survive in some comfort.
What I will not participate in is the way powers have manipulated these people into the anguish and desperation that they are in and I would not fuel it further. Will entering a foreign country create stability and peace? Ask Vietnam? Ask Korea? The only real result you get from intervention of military might.....IS MORE DEAD PEOPLE.
Sending military aid is only a BANDAID solution for a wound that is too big to cover. To stop the insanity, you have to get it at its source. Go after the manufacturers of these chemicals....I don't need to drop names, we all know who these companies are.
The world is obsessed with exposing our differences and how we dislike each other instead of focusing on the really BIG PICTURE...the real truth.
The truth is simple, but always forgotten....no matter your geographic location, no matter your skin colour or your religion, no matter whether you are economically stable or not....we are all the same. HUMAN BEINGS. Human being who all want the same thing...to live in peace.
And when we all start to realize this fact, like every other species has, then maybe we won't have to worry about chemical warfare, or oil hoarding, or fresh water depletion and all the other STUPID things that humans do to each other. We will just live.
Now doesn't that sound naive? You are probably thinking that it sounds insane and unachievable! You are wrong. Humans once lived like this and maybe we won't see it in our lifetime. But there is always hope that Icarus won't fly to the sun and parish. And if he does....well the rest of the creatures of this world will thrive without him.
So we have a choice....keep following this path or choose the path less followed. We just might survive that way!
Quote of the Day.....
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
Waldo Emerson
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