A Proportional Response

-
Today our, United States Representatives, are discussing what ought to be done about Syria. Obviously President Obama has chosen to take the high road and give the people a voice through their representatives, but in doing so the ignorance of people seems to come out. It is important that all citizens of our country have an opinion, but it may be to much to ask that they be well-informed. People have taken to social media to note their outrage and disappointment with the President and his plan for action against Syria seemingly without all the facts in check.

Though it may not have the same magnitude it once held, thank you President Bush, but United States Intelligence has demonstrated that Chemical Weapons were used on innocent civilians as a retaliatory strike against a region that sprung an assassination attempt against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. This included over four hundred people including women and children. As the images of the deadly attacks spread across the media and onto social media the nation wept and shook their heads, now we turn our backs on humanity as we continue on with our daily routine.


As an American shame is the only word to describe those opposed to action. Beyond the principle of injustice, inhumanity and genocide the purpose of a strike against the al-Assad government is justified as a national security endeavor. Secretary of State John Kerry emphasized the importance of setting precedence to stop further similar attacks and the possibility of putting our direct foreign interest, neighbors and allies in peril. Should we strike back at Syria? It is the definition of a proportional response against non-humanitarian activity. Why else are we the greatest nation in the world, but to set a standard and stand by our moral convictions. Wrong is wrong. The end.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

HIUS 713-Blog Discussion Thread: Growth in the Post Bellum Economy

-
Image
              The Postbellum American Economy was an irregular period of growth and change, both in the workforce and industry. The experience of American women in the workforce has always been diverse, generally drawing a stringent line between single women and their married counterparts. During a period of intellectual upheavals with the ending of the Civil War, the reforms of the Reconstruction period, changes in American Christendom, and the rising issues of African Americans seeking equality now that freedom had been gained. Often this line was drawn in as a means of defining one’s properness, stemming from “their health, their morals, and the sufficiency of the pay of those living away from home.” [1]   Claudia Goldin states that it was indeed the actions and labor of single women that “shaped female labor force from 1870 to 1920.” [2] From Goldin’s Table: Labor Force Participation Rates of Single Women, 1890 , we...
Read more

Widow

-
Image
Even now, just over four months in, the word widow seems foreign. The first time I used it to describe myself, I cried on the phone to a stranger at the VA. Keith was a central part of my world, and now that world seems smaller and less grand. That world was unbearable in those first few days, but in time, I have learned to manage and carry that pain with me.  Amy & Keith The first days were some of the most challenging days of my life. Without Keith in the world, I could not focus, eat, or understand what was happening and how it was happening. Planning his funeral was one of the worst days. I could not wrap my mind around what I was doing and why. I could not bring myself to the realization that this was happening to us. And still, all I could worry about was Liam and how this affected him.  Now it seems like everyone I know affected by his death is getting back to "normalcy," and we are still back at the beginning, trying to figure it all out. It is strange to suddenly...
Read more

Strother West Roberts (1842-1897)

-
Image
My third Great Grandfather, Strother West Roberts, was born on November 1, 1842, in Blaine, Kentucky, the heart of Eastern Kentucky, to John C. and Esther (Abbott) Roberts. Strother’s younger brother, Reuben C. Roberts, was born the following year on April 9, 1844; three more younger brothers and a sister joined the family. Two siblings, including his only sister Martha, died before Strother was ten years old. By the age of Nineteen, the United States had broken down into the Civil War. Both Strother and his younger brother Rueben were enlisted into the Union Army into the 14 th Kentucky Regiment, Company G, at Camp Wallace in Lawrence County, Kentucky. [1] The Union’s 14 th Kentucky Infantry Regiment of the Civil War was a highly accomplished and engaged unit throughout the intense years of the American Civil War. In its three-year tenure, the unit engaged in many battles from their home city of Louisa, Kentucky, to distant battlefields in Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. Stro...
Read more