The Syrian war

The Syrian war has been raging on for a year now and the number of dead has risen to almost 80000, the Syrian people desperately need the help of the U.S and other allies they have to intervene and help them fight the dictatorship that has been ruling with an iron fist. The Syrian civil war started in 2011 when other middle eastern countries started uprising against the authoritarian dictatorships that occupied the region. The people of Egypt and Libya performed a successful uprising against their government and reclaimed their power of their country. The Syrian people, the last to start the uprising, are still in a violent, bloody war against the government of president Bashar al-Assad. U.S intervention in the Syrian war is necessary to stop the bloodshed and the refusal of the dictatorship to resign from office by taking strict military action and depriving Assad of weapons, funding and food in order to force him out of office for the crimes that his administration is responsible for.
The uprising started on March 15, 2011 when a group of Syrian high school students made graffiti that opposed Assad’s regime. There were nationwide protests going on in multiple cities demanding the release of the students. When the students were released from captivity, they exhibited signs of torture and incarceration. Protest grew larger and eventually a clash between police and citizens on March 18th resulted in a large number of civilian deaths. The tension rose when the Syrian government sent in tanks into the cities in an effort to stop the violent protests going on all throughout the country. By June, the government reported that 120 security forces were killed and sent more troops into villages and cities, more than 10,000 people fled Syria to seek refuge in Turkey. The violence continues with suicide bombings, usage of rocket launchers and other extremely dangerous explosives that are used by both the government and the opposition. The opposition does not have as many