Do We or Don't We? Syria

Children like the walking dead. A school attacked from the air by a Syrian army plane, which drops
something akin to Napalm.

Children lying stone cold and still. Their tiny arms folded across their bodies, their bodies lined
up across the ground, their eyes closed forever. Their crime? Living in war torn Syria. Their deaths
brought on by chemicals launched in the dead of night. They had no chance.

We watch these images, some of us turn it off, just to avoid the horror. I hate to tell you, but that doesn't make it go away.

The media reports that Americans are war weary. War weary? Yes we've lost so many in recent years, but do we really have the right to make the claim that we are war weary??? I would think that the people of Syria are the ones truly entitled to make that claim. And now the leader of their country has obviously decided that he has to wipe out the survivors of what will most likely be a lost generation of
Syrians by setting his sights on them. The children.

I get it. I don't want to see any of the incredibly brave men and women of our military put in harm's way. Hell, in a perfect world we would never have to witness that. This world is obviously far from
perfect.

How are we supposed to simply shut off the TV, close our laptops, and look the other way when children are being burned alive, poisoned, and slaughtered before our eyes. If Syria or any other country proposed and carried out this sort of attack on American soil how quickly would we dish up
retribution? No, it is not our country, it is not our civil war, and they are not our people, but since when
are the children of one country any less precious than another's? If we don't come to the aid of innocence when it is threatened, how long will it be before it is lost completely?