The Syrian Situation

[DareDemon]

Originally Posted by Schlosser85

Well in fairness neither can children.

Assad needs to be taken out. I dunno if the west will intervene or not, and I'm not sure if we necessarily should, but at the end of the day freedom needs to win and Assad needs to lose.

[Alex_Spider]

Originally Posted by Fenrir

To anyone who feels that the sight of all those mutilated dead children doesn't shake the very fiber of their being - imagine your own innocent child or younger sibling amongst those piles of deformed corpses, and you'll have just found your worst fear. It is exactly this kind of apathy on our part that makes these tyrants and butchers think they can get away with heinous massacres like this.

Originally Posted by SuperFerret

I was honestly more fascinated than appalled at that video. I deal with death and dead things fairly often, but it's rare to see something like that.

The reason it doesn't "shake the very fiber of (my) being" or however you want to try and paint that is that I'm able to compartmentalize those sorts of things and put them in perspective. Yes, if those were my kids/younger siblings/etc. I'd feel horror and outrage and all that, but they're not, and I know they're not. Emotions are valuable, and you'll never hear me claim otherwise, but giving a kneejerk anger response to this (something I can't actually do something about) is not only pointless, but ultimately frustrating.

Don't go around painting people as bad just because you personalize things a bit too much.

So a guy claims that he feels nothing when innocent children and men die in horrible ways, but gets easily frustrated and offended for all the wrong reasons and because his self pride is hurt. Humanity makes me proud once again..

[Alex_Spider]

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[regwec]

Syrian rebel commander eats enemy soldier's heart.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22519770

Not pleasant and, sadly, a propaganda tool for Assad.

[Cosmic]

Syria is a quagmire. We will gain NOTHING from "intervention," (a term used far too lightly for what it actually entails) but we will surely risk making a bad situation worse. We should support our allies over there, but we should avoid getting actively involved in the war.