In the upcoming days our congress will be deciding on whether or not to attack Syria. What happened in Syria is atrocious and morally sick. Yet if we attack Syria what do we hope to accomplish? Our country is not a super hero. We cannot right all the evils in the world. What do we hope to gain by attacking Syria? Showing Assad that what he did is despicable. I think he is already aware of that, and he doesn't care. Will our actions stop Assad? It is doubtful. If anything we become more of a target than we already are.
What our congress must do in these coming days is to look back at our history. In Korea in the 50's we did not win, the conflict is still there, just not violent any more (but still very volatile ). Viet Nam in the 60's. We lost that one, along with nearly 60,000 American soldiers. Our intentions were good with both of these involvements. The problem was that we forgot that these conflicts were not ours.
We have spent the last twelve years in a war in the Middle East. All of us are war weary. The most war weary are our service men and women. Some have done four tours of duty! How long are we going to stretch them to the limit? I don't want to say it, but I think we would be starting up the draft again if we were to be much longer in a war.
I hope our congress takes their time to weigh all the consequences of what attacking Syria would mean. I think it is a lose - lose situation. May God be with our leaders to make the right decision.
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