Dear Editor: There is no feeling like the warmth of democracy. Democracy must be protected from the cold hearted. Democracy must be promulgated throughout the world even its darkest days. Democracy must be maintained without complacency in our most comforting hours. Democracy should be spread without burning rhetoric that leaves a scar on the mental rolodex of voters.
Therefore, the privilege of democracy does not need to be held from the Syrian people or any other country around the world. We need people who are equipped for all seasons as President Ronald Reagan once said. We need human beings who care for others when others are wrongfully hurt. We need citizens who take notice of law and order rather than allowing lawbreakers to be free.
The Syrian government has allegedly broken international law by using chemical weapons on its own citizens. Also, the Syrian Government is harboring terrorist-like organizations such as Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. Those two reasons are very significant for why we must enter Syria.
If Syria becomes even more overwhelmed with civil unrest and economic nuisances Syria could very well become more corrupt. Even corrupt enough to start producing terrorists over lands that are larger than some American states.
The problem with Syria being in total disarray is that it is the center of the African Arab World. If they are able to become a breeding ground for unruly people that perform horrific acts they can target United States Armed Forces establishments and other countries that do not agree with them in the African Arab World.
Consequently, this could hurt our economic and financial interests in the area. That is the majority of the world’s oil reserves being there and other natural resources we need across the world. The regime of Bashar al-Assad must be committed to reform overseen by our international allies or be toppled. Sending our military forces into Syria takes reasoned and calculated approaches. However, this is what our men and women of the armed forces signed up for. They didn’t just sign up for peacetime they signed up to answer to the call of duty.
Each life is valuable and I am sure the United States and our allies will do whatever it takes to protect it. Yet, we must not allow this event to turn into another U.S.S. Cole, Afghanistan, or even Libya.
Thankfully, one leader understands all the concerns faced by the American people and our allies that is my senator, Lindsey Graham. Graham has continuously fought for our citizens, all of the laws we abide by, and most of all freedom. Still, we must respect those leaders who would like America to overlook this situation and disregard their possible aloofness to the fullness of this foreign crisis. As a result in crisis we must look to the rules and proper reasons to command our actions to make the world a better place.
-Jordan Cooper
Columbia, S.C.
SIC SEZ
Disagree with you … but thanks for sharing.
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Each life is valuable and I am sure the United States and our allies will do whatever it takes to protect it.
The extreme poverty, starvation, and disease under an oppressive government who sends thousands upon thousands to executions and/or gulags would warrant doing “whatever it takes to protect” the valuable lives of North Koreans under such a notion. So, when do we invade DPRK and topple Kim Jong-un?
The fact that we are closer to war with Iran for trying to build their own nukes than a country who not only pursued nukes, but successfully built and tested them, and constantly fires missiles in defiance of other countries, should really tell you something about what the US and its allies think about human lives.
Well said.
While I too have concerns about bombing Syria, I think your criticism of the US and our Allies is to harsh in this instance. I think what dealings with North Korea shows is that once a nation gets nukes its too late to do anything about it. Consequently we have to do whatever we are going to do before that happens, or not at all.
We can’t attack a country that will use nukes, unless we are willing to use nukes or have nukes used on our troops.
Excuse me, “I think what our dealings with North Korea shows. . ..
Well………has anyone been asked to consider how North Korea effects the World supply of Oil in comparison to the effects that Syria has on oil prices and the pipeline conduits to the EU..?
The only countries talked about in the political realm lately have World Oil implications or World Drug trade implications….its pretty simple to deduce why North Korea is a “media step child”..!!
Has to be satire.
But TBG will break it down for you anyway.
Dear Editor: There is no feeling like the warmth of democracy. Democracy must be protected from the cold hearted. Democracy must be promulgated throughout the world even its darkest days. Democracy must be maintained without complacency in our most comforting hours. Democracy should be spread without burning rhetoric that leaves a scar on the mental rolodex of voters.
Call the burn center, your mental rolodex is about to get singed. The US is a republic…not a democracy. And thankfully so… I believe it was Jonah Goldberg who stated that in a true democracy, “51% of the population could vote to piss in the other 49%’s cornflakes.” You might also note that the vast majority of Americans are AGAINST intervention in Syria.
Also, the Syrian Government is harboring … Al Qaeda
If “harboring” means “trying to prevent being overthrown by”, you have a valid point. Last time TBG checked the OED, it didn’t.
The problem with Syria being in total disarray is that it is the center of the African Arab World.
Your third grade geography teacher just committed suicide.
Graham has continuously fought for our citizens, all of the laws we abide by, and most of all freedom
No sane person could write that, unless it is intended as satire.
Fp thinks that tbg just got a little fired up. :)
“Your third grade geography teacher just committed suicide.”
lol….the teacher should have pondered the fact that you “can’t fix stupid” and moved on with life.
Oh well, too late for that bit of advice now I suppose.
TGB I get your snark – complete appropriate to the overblown letter. However, thinking that Graham hasn’t stood up for the letter of the law doesn’t jibe with what he’s done while sitting in that Senate Seat. Consider the Military Court re-vamp where civilian contractors can be tried there because they are really operatives working against US interests; consider his stand regarding drone use in the US, knowing that judges don’t decide who targets are when it comes to military conflicts; consider his demands for the truth about Benghazi.
Don’t throw him away on one issue – immigration. You honestly think those 11 million will simply just disappear once the bill is signed? You think they will ever self-deport? You think we have enough cash to round ’em up and move ’em out?
Come on now, people of SC. Graham should be kept as your Senator. We need him in that seat for the good of our nation, which BTW was, to my thinking, his reason for supporting a strike on Syria in the first place. It was, I think, prior to Obama sending it to the Congress for decision, as he should have all along under Article 1, Section 8.
“The problem with Syria being in total disarray is that it is the center of the African Arab
World. If they are able to become a breeding ground for unruly people that perform horrific acts they can target United States Armed Forces establishments and other countries that do not agree with them in the African Arab World.”
Syria is part of Asia. If it is the “center”, then why was Syria expelled from the Arab League? Syria is already a breeding ground for people who perform horrific acts, and so are other countries in the Middle East. It is not the “center” because it is not a major oil producer.
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“Yet, we must not allow this event to turn into another U.S.S. Cole, Afghanistan, or even Libya.”
How would you do this without an occupation of several 100,000 American troops?
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“Dear Editor: There is no feeling like the warmth of democracy. Democracy must
be protected from the cold hearted. Democracy must be promulgated throughout
the world even its darkest days.”
How has democracy worked out in Egypt? They voted in a fundamentalist Muslim govt. that was subsequently tossed out by military coup. Democracy applied to other cultures does not automatically translate into a value system that is compatible with ours.
Democracy is not warm and fuzzy. Democracy is messy. In Egypt, the “warmth of democracy” you speak of is the warm blood of their citizens flowing in the streets of Cairo.
Mr. Cooper, with all due respect, most people in SC don’t give a rat’s rear end what the camel jockeys in Syria do to each other. As I heard a local elected official say recently..”let’em kill each other off and let God sort’em out…”. While that may sound cold and callous, for a nation that has spent the better part of 12 years fighting in two wars and numerous other violent entanglements, there comes a point where the majority of the population will eventually say enough is enough.
When our own closest allies can not sell the same idea to their parliaments or people, why should we be surprised when everyday people in the USA follow suit? The civil war in Syria is an internal Syrian matter and in no way involves the US. I can fully appreciate Americans who are horrified at the images of the dead, especially the children. The daily images of the thousands of refugees living in poor conditions in refugee camps is pulling at the compassionate side of some Americans who feel we must do something, to help the Syrians.
But to many Americans, weary of the on-going conflicts that this administration and prior administrations have involved us in, they can no longer stomach the continuous spending of our tax dollars, the disruption of our normal daily lives, and the seemingly wasteful use of our resources in parts of the world where we are neither invited or requested. We can no longer continue to play policeman to the world and in reality we should not continue to do so. Unfortunately, that is the way of the world, countries fight wars, they have for thousands of years and in war there are atrocities and deaths of innocents.
Until such time as the conflict in Syria or anywhere else in the world can be shown to have a immediate, clear and definite threat to US, then we should not be involved. Further any representative be it Senator Graham, Scott or our Congressman who support the further waste of tax payer dollars and American lives should be mindful that they do so against the wishes of the voters, and we will remember that fact come November 2014.
“The Syrian government has allegedly broken international law by using chemical weapons on its own citizens. Also, the Syrian Government is harboring terrorist-like organizations such as Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. Those two reasons are very significant for why we must enter Syria.”
Al-Qaeda are also Sunni’s fghting with the rebels, Mr Cooper. That’s really fucked up don’t you think?
What percentage of the population in South Carolina are Tea Partiers? The democratic candidate for the senate 2014 appears to be a blue dog democrat. A senator is going to have to represent all of the people, not just a conservative faction.
That was SO gay,I’m gonna go find the ‘right woman’…
Sorry, not buying it. Religious nuts in the Middle East will keep it ugly for another 1,000 years.
Sorry, 9″. This was meant for Mr. Cooper…
Thanks for posting this fitsnews. I appreciate it. Yes, they are harboring Al Qaeda and numerous other terrorist groups that are plotting to overtake the government of Syria. This consequently will make it even more corrupt than it already is. Syria is to the right of the center of the African Arab World if you view it on the Encyclopedia Britannica’s site. A large percentage of Syrians are still stuck in poverty and many more have been placed into poverty as a result of the ongoing civil war there. As a matter of fact the civil war has caused the oil industry in Syria to decline which is about a quarter of the country’s GDP. Is not getting involved in Syria is allowing terrorist-like groups to have a training camp and playground for activities that are anti-American that could infect the other countries in the African Arab World. Is it our job to use military action? Yes, I believe we need careful military action. We are still the most successful country in this world and to much has been achieved much is responsible for. We will not be in Syria alone and troops will not be even deployed on the ground as stated in the proposed resolution. I understand totally where your coming from with numerous family members losing their lives in military action throughout the world. Still we must understand they will be remembered by us, revered by the people, and their souls redeemed by the most high. So, if they do lose their heartbeat their legacy lives on in the country they fought in and in the United States. If they do lose their lives like we all will inevitably do they most likely will be in a better place if they are right with God. Syria has more population than our neighboring state of North Carolina and will cause numerous other problems in their particular region and around the world if not dealt with properly.
See below 9″ for my reply to your statement.
Is not getting involved in Syria is allowing terrorist-like groups to have a training camp and playground for activities that are anti-American that could infect the other countries in the African Arab World.
English is not your native language, yes?
You gotta spend money to make money.
You gotta end lives to save lives.