Argumentative Essay On Syrian Civil War

Back in the spring of 2011 Syria began a brutal civil war that crippled the infrastructure leaving 3 main factions fighting for power. The United States decided to intervene and support the Syrian Rebel Army in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad’s suspected use of chemical weapons against the people of Syria. If this were in fact accurate and America’s only reason for uniting forces with them was to overthrow a tyrannical leader, then I believe America would have been in accordance with the Just War Theory. Yet history shows us that we (Americans) usually have an ulterior motive behind the silver lining. If we look back to the year 2003 and the invasion of Iraq we again see that in the peoples’ eyes there was a just reason for why we were sending our armies. Weapon of Mass
Yet at the same time our western ideas would continue to undermine their cultural identity by promoting a worldwide culture to benefit the global corporations. These policies will only breed further fanaticism and fear with the people who already feel betrayed and angry. We can change this by encouraging instead a personal desire to be fully informed about the world around us, giving up our personal desires that drive us only into greed, envy and pride. We need a movement that will lobby governments and the UN, making it clear that the most effective way for governments to contribute to a reduction in both poverty and violence is not to scale up funding for development, but to scale back the forces of globalization. By taking a stance and shifting our economic policies to support local and national economies and to get rid of the mindset of taking advantage of the undeveloped. This will set us on the path toward a more harmonious world, one that can be filled with understanding rather than