It's OK that we disagree.There are some people you can respectfully disagree with, and you are one of them.

I would not want the responsibility of deciding about Syria.

>I'll have to disagree with you, Mike, on the whole 'destiny' thing. It gets tiresome when one gets constantly called on the hypocrisy of 'policing the world' when we can't take care of the home front and I personally get very tired of countries that bad mouth us when we don't do something yet criticize us when we do. And when we say, 'ok, fine - then YOU take care of it' the response is "oh, we don't have the money/resources/etc to do anything".
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>Syria is a case of 'damned if we do and damned if we don't and damned 'cuz we didn't' and as long as Russia sits on the General Council of the UN and vetoing any 'world memorandum' it's a waste of time to expect even a slap on the wrist for Syria's breaking of the 'no chemical warfare' rule.
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>>>My war, Korea, was aptly called a "police action."
>>>History will judge whether that war should have been fought, but at least we had a situation where an ally was being invaded by a foreign power and I served side by side with soldiers from other UN countries.
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>>>All wars since WWII have been wars of choice- not of necessity- and all resulted in needless loss of lives.
>>>No one likes to bring it up, but the number of Iraqi's slaughtered as a result of our invasion is in the hundreds of thousands.
>>>Think about that before calling other people war criminals.
>>>Syria is in a region containing countries with the capability to stop Assad anytime they want and they don't choose to.
>>>Let them police countries in their own region if in fact anyone should.
>>>Meanwhile, we should police Detroit, Baltimore, DC, Camden, etc.
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>>We are the world's police force, like it or not. Like you I wish we could focus on problems here at home. It just isn't that simple. Even though we are hated in most parts of the world, we are looked to as the strong force in the face of evil. It is part of our destiny as a country.
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>>No hard feelings to either you or Sergey. You are both among my favorites here. We just disagree about this.