I'm not going to sit here and pretend I have the answer. I don't think the US should act for actions sake. Nor do I think the US should act as an international vigilante, outside international law. Nor however do I think gassing civilians is in any way acceptable. But let's be honest here, what I think doesn't matter. What I know doesn't matter. I, and most of you reading this, don't have a say in whether we will attack Syria. We don't have a real say in much that happens politically. That's what happens when you live in a country of three hundred plus milion people, Your voice gets drowned out. Especially when you don't have money, which I don't really have.
The answer I do have is to listen to the people who know about what an invasion or intervention means. To the people who know what it's like to live under a dictatorship. I'm going to be quite honest and say that the person whose writing I'm going to post agrees with me that the US shouldn't intervene. But I don't want this to be about my opinion of what the US should do. I want this to be about what people in the region have to say about the issue. People who will be directly affected. So here's my contribution to those voices. Some of you probably have your own experience with invasions or interventions. Please share.
“Dictators bring invaders; this is an indisputable fact. Invaders never brought freedom to people, and this is another fact that we shouldn’t forget. But what we should say at this very crucial moment of our lives and the life of our revolution is that the dictators are not the only ones who brought invaders, but that they contributed to that a group of politicians and revolution-traders who sold our blood — once to Qatar and once to Saudi and once to organizations that I don’t know their nature — without the slightest sense of shame. Imagine Samir Nashar and Zuheir Salem representing this great revolution — how strange!
“Do you want to know my position?
“I am against the US military intervention and I have my reasons, I , the son of this revolution, whether you like it or not.
Go read the whole thing, and then find more voices of those who are directly affected by the conflict. Not to argue with them, but to amplify them.