A Red Line...

President Obama said in August 2012 concerning the Syrian civil war "We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.  That would change my calculus.  That would change my equation."

It now appears as if the Syrian Government has crossed that "red line". An intelligence report given to the White House on Thursday stated that they are  fairly certain that the Syrian  Regime  used sarin gas on Syria's rebels. Sec. of Defense Chuck Hagel, when asked if the Red Line had been crossed, said it was too soon to say and that they needed "all the facts" before anything was done.

So what does this mean? Are we going to go and get involved in the Syrian Rebellion?  Some say we should have already gotten involved so nothing like this would happen. We are already giving he rebels provisions, just not weapons.

My take on this is LEAVE THEM ALONE! We don't need another war. and we need to get rid of this perception that we are the policemen of the world. Syria isn't an ally. And even if we help the rebels out there is no guarantee they will be allies. We helped Libya "revolt" and it hasn't helped us one bit. They just have another terrorist group leading them up now, the Muslim Brotherhood. If anything we are just as bad off as before. It looks as if the Rebels will have the Muslim Brotherhood at their head to before long.

I know this non-interventionist view is seen as cold and cruel, but it's what we need to do. America can't afford to help every country that decides to revolt. We're over 16 trillion dollars in debt. We have our own problems.. My position is. If they attack us, we wipe them off the earth. If they attack our allies, we protect our allies or those we have treaties with (Japan, South Korea, Britain etc...), but we need to stop helping rebels who don't like us revolt against a government that doesn't like us. you may ask "but what about all the 70,000 dead over there?" This will sound cold but It's not our problem.

When we start intervening with other country's problems we normally just screw everything up. And has it ever occurred to anyone that maybe other countries don't want the U.S. involved in their affairs? Our foreign policy should be to protect our interests. Not just make it worse for us. Stop giving all these Middle-Eastern countries weapons and foreign aid for goodness sake. We have our problems here. We could have kept all those air traffic control officers who were put on furlough by just stop giving billions away to those who are, at best, neutral with us.

Obama says will. intervene when they cross that red line, I say intervene when they start messing with us or the people we protect. Let 'em have a go at Israel and then we get involved. But  IT IS NOT OUR JOB. If the UN or other countries want to get involved, great for them. but we should fix our country before we attempt to fix others.