Monday, August 26, 2013

A Syriously Short Post

There's rumblings going around that we could send military into Syria. My position is short and sweet: No. We don't know who the enemy is over there, whether it's the fallen regime, the rebels, the military, there are no clear lines of who is our enemy. Usually, I back war because war brings jobs and keeps my husband in a job. Yes I know the repercussions, and fully understand that. While an ultimate sacrifice is never what anyone, whether military or civilian, wants to hear of the fact is, it's apart of this life. And if you think that we should just blindly send military members into a chaotic situation you are nuts. Would you support the NYPD or LAPD or BPD sending in their SWAT units into chaos without a clear plan of action, without knowing who they are targeting? While it is tragic what is happening in Syria (and Egypt) the fact remains, we cannot go into further debt, and risk our military members lives just because someone is using chemical weapons, or bombing, or whatever. Until we have a clear plan of action, a clear enemy we stay put. Too many people were irate at the Bush administration for putting us in Iraq and Afghanistan, do you really think that putting boots on the ground in Syria would be any different?

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