Off-Topic: Poison Gas in Syria

According to articles in the news over the last few days, President Obama has become very concerned about the use of poison gas in the Syrian civil war. Now please don't get me wrong, I think it's disgusting that a government should use gas against its civilian population, but I hope Obama remains sensible. Has he learnt nothing from the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq? Who appointed America to be the world's policeman? It's not even as if America receives thanks for doing it.

America and its allies went into Afghanistan to capture Osama Bin Laden and remove the Taliban from power. This was an admirable task, but after it succeeded America remained to help stabilise the country. But the average person on the street thinks of America as an occupying force, so foreign soldiers are killed daily.

America and its allies went into Iraq to capture Saddam Hussein and remove him from power. This was an admirable task, but after it succeeded America remained to help stabilise the country. But the average person on the street thinks of America as an occupying force, so foreign soldiers are killed daily.

Do you see a pattern? In the case of Afghanistan and Iraq there was some justification, because Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were threats to the western world. On the other hand, President Assad of Syria is only a threat to his own people. This is a case of Moslems killing Moslems, as they have been doing for hundreds of years. If America intervenes Islamic extremists will put a spin on it that America is once again oppressing Islam, and the ignorant Moslems in the Arabian deserts and European cities will believe them.

My advice to Barak Obama, David Cameron and the rest of the western world is simple: stay out of Syria! It's an internal Syrian problem that they should deal with themselves. If Assad wants to gas a few million Moslems, let him get on with it. Maybe it will open people's eyes and expose Islam as the Religion of Hate that it has always been. If anyone at all should intervene it's Syria's neighbours. Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq can send troops into Syria. Not America.