Syria

I don't watch news all the time. If I'm being honest, there may be some days I don't watch it at all. I don't always read the newspaper and a lot of my news alerts come from local news apps on my phone. The proceeding facts should make the remainder of this entry even more disturbing. You don't need to be tuned in all day everyday to know about the problems in Syria. It's all over the news all the time--as it should be! We were horrified that Syria used chemical weapons and killed innocent children and civilians. Was it horrible? Of course. Should something be done? Of course. Do we attempt to set up some form of aide to help victims? No....we do the opposite. We threaten air strikes, because what better way to speak out against the deaths of innocents than by killing innocents???? The Syrians say they will retaliate (wouldn't you?). Does this bother our President? Does it alarm him that a country he is planning to attack has vowed retaliation? No. He says, "The notion that Mr. Assad could significantly threaten the United States is just not the case." Nice. We go into a country that has not taken any action against us supposedly to speak out against the very violence our presence will bring. We do this knowing retaliation will follow and we are arrogant and brazen enough to call them an insignificant threat on a national television interview?????? Sometimes there truly are no words.