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In reply to the discussion: Syria Inaction is NOT AN OPTION [View all]avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)This is a crazy mixed up crisis in Syria with no clear side for us to defend. There is no upside in this for US involvement.
How about we face our own moral failings?
Each and every year 40,000 people die here in the U.S. because of lack of access to medical care. That number is supposed to be halved by Obama care. Should Obamacare prove successful there will still be 20,000 people who will die for lack of medical care. Are the Syrian children more important than are own children and people? Where is your outrage about these needless American deaths that happen year after year?
And are we resigned and comfortable with the hunger that pervades our country and its families in the U.S?
If someone can solve the problem in Syria it certainly isn't the U.S., we have no moral standing, nor are we in a financial position to do so. Instead it is high time that we get our own house in order.