Honestly:
I threw away the first link because it talked about Miley Cyrus. I know who runs the World and it isn't God.
The second video I simply throw away. Atrocities happen in war on both sides. In my opinion we shouldn't cite one/two individuals actions to take sides. I am not excusing his actions, but we have no idea what has happened to this man. Has his family been killed by the gas explosions? Is he martyring them? Was he tortured? In Vietnam our guys did some detestable things. Should another country have taken the North Vietnamese side because of that?....Things happened at Gitmo recently..Is that reason to be against the U.S...The Kansas redlegs and Missouri bushwackers cut the heads off of victims and put them on sticks...Both sides..Which side to take?..Prisoners of war were routinely killed on both sides during WWII, should we have decided sides by who killed more? Both Germany and Britain participated in carpet bombing campaigns that set whole cities on fire and indiscriminately killed thousands of women, children and helpless...The whole city of Dresden caught fire in WWII..... No no, too many isolated instances of barbarism will take place during war to pick sides based off of that......Mistake.
War is awful on all fronts though. Veterans go and hide during thunderclaps, cry at night, don't talk about things, have lucid flashbacks, are on mind altering medication for life. Most are not fit for society and/or have tremendous trouble coping. Do we want our guys to go into this?
The only wars worth fighting in my mind are the ones where innocent women and children and the elderly are in danger or maybe where genocide is taking place, or when we would be forced to defend ourselves.
Times that the US should have intervened or didn't intervene enough and there are probably more that are not as publicized:
Rwanda- genocide
Bosnia/Herzegovina - genocide
There isn't a lot of information out on this one yet. I think we should stay clear until we know more. But absolutely we should do all that we can in the meantime. It is worth bankrupting the country to do good for the rest of the world. War should be the last option because of the atrocities that come from it.
As an informed citizen I wouldn't want to pick sides based off of a Glenn Beck video.
No matter how much I don't trust the government there is waaaaayyyyyyyy too much that goes on that I don't know about. Classified information that even Glenn Beck can't get to. I will trust/support whatever the Government's Supreme Commander in Chief decides.
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