Stay out of Syria
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR September 12, 2013 5:36PM
Updated: September 13, 2013 2:24AM
Four years ago, President Obama denied aid to moderate Iranian rebels because, he said, we have no right to butt into the internal affairs of other countries.
Now Syria is engaged in a civil war and our president is champing at the bit to strike at the Syrian government. Hamas and al-Qaida notoriously hide behind women and children so they can feign outrage at innocent casualties. We’ve seen it in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we see it now in Syria.
If the U.S. hits Syria with missiles or bombs, the Syrian government will display women and children victims (whether they are victims or not) of American aggression. The Arab nations will decry American hostility and pledge revenge.
Regardless of what we do or don’t do, we’ll be castigated, so let’s stay out of the conflict. Besides, as long as they fight among themselves, they’re not killing Americans.
Donald Froelich, Mount Prospect
Don’t look to Putin for Syria plan
Vladimir Putin is the most untrustworthy person in the world right now and yet he can easily manipulate America, especially our president. Have we forgotten that it was Putin who granted the American traitor Edward Snowden asylum in Russia? Have we forgotten that Russia has always opposed American proposals in the United Nations with respect to Syria’s chemical weapons? For the first time I have admired President Obama because of his firm determination to attack Syria’s military defenses to punish Syria for its use of chemical weapons against its own citizens, including 400 children.
Well, I was wrong. As soon as Russia proposed placing all of Syria’s chemical weapons under international monitoring, Obama gave up.
Countries around the world are laughing at America right now, not because we are doing nothing against Syria but because we are so weak.
Mateo Capinpin, Downers Grove
