Not one American soldier should die in Syria. This is not our problem. Even if the Arab world clamors for intervention and the European states volunteer this is still not our fight. No doubt that Assad is a bad man, but he's not a threat to American interests.

Isn't this what Colin Powell told George Bush after he made the decision to invade Iraq. To add insult to injury he left the Secretary of State out of the loop. It would be madness to interfere militarily in Syria at any rate. There is about the same certainty of outcome as in Iraq that has become an Iranian client state.

In addition where were the Syrian people when their leader marched his soldiers into Lebanon or assassinated their leaders. They seem to be capable of making up their own minds and using their own bodies to carry it out. We should stay out.

Since Syria has no oil what happens there doesn't on a global scale matter to the US as opposed to issues in Iraq or Iran who do have oil. They are having a civil war there we can't end civil wars and should stay out of it. It's someone else's time to take on world cop. Maybe France as as far as I can recall Syria was a French Protectorate after the Ottoman empire was dismantled. Or it could have been Britain's Protectorate. It is their problem. Not ours

I suggest that you seem to forget the orderly approach we want to follow in our wars. We have numbered our future battles. Next up is Iran. Syria must wait its turn.