Syria

Here is a quote from President Obama from August 18, 2011: “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way,” Obama said in a written statement. “For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to stepaside.” On a number of occasions over the past two years Obama has said that Assad must go. Now he is preparing to respond to Assad’s use of chemical weapons and he says it is not our policy to promote regime change but only to discourage the use of WMD. Ideally we should have intervened two years ago by arming the militants but since we did not do that, I believe we should now stay out of it. If they want to destroy their own country, that is their business and like many people say when talking about Afghanistan and Iraq, we are not the world’s policeman.