Interesting when US supplied white phosphorus, D.I.M.E. tungsten anti-personnel munitions, US F-162 and AH-64D Apache helicopter gunships with their horrendous AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles in the hands of the Bible barbarians were tearing into the flesh of Palestinian civilian men, women and children. Nope, no-fly-zones, No UN Resolutions protecing human life in Gaza and no UN Resolutions prohibiting the IDF/IAF genociders from bombing and strafing ambulences full of dying people, Hospitals, Police stations, Clinics, Orphanages, Chicken farms, Water/sewage plants, the 'only' flour mill in Gaza, and here were are in the Tiajuna jail praying for UN/NATO actions against a Syria that is fighting a US/CIA - Israel/Mossad created and financed incitement, murder and mayehm in Syria in an effort to destablize Assad?

No, the United Nitwits will ask the US to provide troops for his removal. You know, some of the 500,000 Ali Bama plans to cut? The ones needed to join the two Navy battle groups already over there? My guess would be he will provide them too, if asked, though he claims his efforts are towards the far east. This just shows the wisdom of our anointed leader.

Maxtor51 - there is no reason that ANY leader should pay attention to the UN. It is a club of elites who think they can go around and tell everyone else how to live. The UN can just PHUCK OFF

All but the United Snakes (US/Israel), right?

The United Snakes (US/Israel), to be more precise Pilgrim. (The Jordanian/Syrian border is teeming with Libyan 'rebel's flown in by Israel that are going to fight ($200/day + ammo and AK-47) for sex, drugs and rock-m-roll (With a few beheadings and rapes along the way) to Syria and the US troops who 'stopped by' on their way home from Iraq (of course) are there training and arming the hooligans who continue to create murder and mayhem in Libya though the US media refuses to report it.

Tell that to Saddam Hussein, oh wait you CAN'T! because he is dead because the UN drafted a resolution that gave the USA right to attack Iraq

You forgot USAID who finances termoil in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Kosovo, and places known only to the devil.

The civil war started due to the succession of thirteen southern states who by the way 12 of which did not even have Abraham Lincoln on the Presidential Ballot. The war started with South Carolina over running fort Sumter and the US trying to re-take it. No matter what the southern states used succession due to a real fear of losing slavery ever since it was placed into the Constitution that no new slaves could be imported into the United States after 1810. Syria is a country who's people are fighting against a Dictator tyrant whose regime was passed down from his father. These People want freedom the same as we did in the 1770's leading to July 4th, 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. The Syrian people want freedom and the right to establish their own government by Syrians for Syrians. If nee be The United States should intervene maybe as the French did during the Revolutionary War which was to provide training, non-lethal equipment(Vests, night vision, meals, etc) and a blockade preventing heavy weapons from reaching the Syrian regime which are murdering their own people. It becomes a moral responsibility for the strong to protect the weak who are unable to protect themselves. Think if we could go back to 1937 and stop Hitler and prevent the Holocaust.

You sign up and go fight the good fight. My family has given enough.

I lost a Brother in Iraq, an Uncle in Korea, and two Uncles in World War II not mention my Grandfather being injured at Normandy. But that should not prevent those capable to prevent injustices the right of inaction.

At Steve:

Neocon Alert. Neocon Alert. Steve frankly your knowledge of history is laughable. You shouldn't propose to lecture anyone until you have more than a "general" understanding on matters. Your poor understanding of the war between the states is all I need to know to be absolutely assured that you don't know very little about political science and history. You write nothing but the dumbed down history of the so-called "civil war" that is meant for mass consumption on non-intellectuals. The real causes of the war between the states are well documented by historians but you wont get them in a typical high school or entry level university history book. With out going into expansive detail, the real cause of the civil war was federalism vs anti federalism, with TARIFFS imposed on the southern economy because of the North's LACK of ports. Lincoln's assertions that the "majority" should always rule was also a particular sticking point with the South because of the loss of balance of power due to heavy European immigration into industrial cities of the north. It was an upsetting of balance of power which the South felt violated the original intent that the founding fathers had prescribed in limited representative government.

Slavery itself, was merely a backdrop because it represented a powerful economic bloc in the Southern States. The fact of the matter is, that only the extremist and authoritarian abolitionist movement made the "third rail" issue of slavery it's primary focus. BTW, the abolitionists were viewed as rabble rousers more-so in the north than they were in the south, because the north was their primary political place of power. Lincoln himself was at odds with the abolitionists early on, who actually advocated northern secession. Of course this was anathema to the statist Lincoln who was from the big-government wing of Federalism. The fact that Lincoln caved into the abolitionists, and only even partially with the emancipation proclamation which freed slaves in ONLY THE SOUTHERN STATES, is evidence that slavery was the least important issue in the war between the states. The emancipation proclamation was nothing more than what would today be considered a PR campaign designed to prop up and unpopular war in the north which was beginning to be seen as an act of unnecessary aggression. It was an effort to portray the northern cause as moral and right instead of the truth that the entire war was about economic issues. ALL WARS ARE. The north and the ideas of big government, centralized banking and industrialized predatory economy simply couldn't survive without the southern ports, or the southern cash crops, because the north was poor in this regard. The secession of the south would have upset the commensalism that northern industrialists economy was built around with the south as it's supplier of resources. It's just like today how the authoritarian government of the United States masquerades it's wars as "spreading freedom and democracy" when in actuality the purpose is always economic.

The US government is more than happy to fund outright dictators such as Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein and the Shah of Iran and even terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden as long as they play by the rules that allow US economic hegemony and fight their competitors. You talk of world war II and the holocaust yet once again you do so from a naive perspective. WWII would have never even happened if not for the economic ruination that was unfairly foisted on Germany after the so-called war to end all wars which the leaders of the international Jewish community and the United States who headed the League of Nations were only too happy to exploit. Long before Adolf Hitler began restricting the rights of the German Jews, they declared economic war on Germany. The holocaust narrative didn't even become a theme about WWII until the 1970's, coincidentally which also ignores the "allied" atrocities such as Eisenhower's extermination camps for 1.7 million German POW's. The war crime bombing of the city of Dresden as well as Stalin's war crimes in Poland and in the ethnic cleansing of 12-14 million Germans in the Sudetenland.

To even suggest that that the so-called Syrian "freedom fighters" are interested in democracy is about as naive and laughable as you can get. Syria is undoubtedly a dictatorship, but so has the U.S. been since the 1860's. Syria is a secular country, much like Iraq was under Saddam Hussein. Now Iraq has been moving towards Sharia law and Islamic fundamentalism. Which is exactly what the rebels in Syria prescribe, just like all of the so-called Arab spring. The Syrian resistance is actually in contact with Sudanese leaders who were responsible for the Christian genocide in that nation. It's not surprise also that while they proclaim to be about democracy, they actively persecute the Syrian Christian population, who support Assad for obvious reasons. They don't want to live as Dhimmitude in an Islamic Syria. This is what the US government is all too happy to support under the guise of spreading freedom and democracy. Likewise they support a government in Israel who hides behind being a secular democracy, while the official practice is the promotion of a state religion (Judaism), the active persecution of non-Jews and ethnic supremacy of Jews. The world world is starting to learn these facts about the double talking US federal government, and I suggest you do the same if you have one honest bone in your body. The bottom line is, the US needs to mind it's own business. We are not the policeman of the world, nor does the government have the moral right to be, even if their motives were pure, which they never are. Your instance of moral crusading makes you sound like just another war mongering neocon. Are you?

As a side node: The banning of importation of slaves also had very little to do with the war between the states. The Southern plantation class had more than enough slaves and actually a better "quality" of slave thanks to the ban on importation through their home-grown breeding program. First generation slaves are always less productive than multi-generational slaves. This is not a pro-slavery position. It's just historical fact.

you appear to be a rather BIG expert on Syria and what it's people want. How do you know so much?
Or are you just spewing the same silly garbage about "freedom and democracy" that USA has been doing for decades while enslaving and exploiting blacks, then Chinese and all the while stealing Native Americans' lands? For all its talk about "freedom and democracy" the USA didn't allow it's women to vote untill the 1030s.
Damn that pesky Reality ALWAYS ruining that pretty fables.

Maybe government terrorism in the US would be a great place to renew the battle against fascism now that the unindicted war criminal torturers, rapists and sodomizers are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, their oh-so quick (Remembering the Haditha massacre) trigger fingers calloused and in great shape, huh?

Boy does this dude waste computer 'ink' FP. I'd send him a bill or a economy sized e-raser, dah?