For 6 years Syria has been at war with itself. In these 5-6 years many people have died. And many towns and cities left and ruined. The beginning of the fifth year of the war half a quarter million people have been killed. And over 10 million have been forced to leave their homes. And it all began with the actions of peaceful protestors. Which has cost the lives of 100,000 people and forced over two million to flee to the relative safety of neighboring countries. This conflict has captured the world’s attention because of the tactics employed by the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. Unarmed civilians were attacked and killed by government troops as they searched for the most effective and seemingly brutal method for quelling this uprising. Now there are some US politicians, who feel that it is the duty of our country to get involved militarily, but this with two wars already fought the past ten years, there seems to be little to no public support for this type of move. The United States is not the world’s policeman and should let countries solve their own problems.
The problems in Syria began in 2011 …show more content…
This has led many syrians to to emigrate to neighboring countries, mainly turkey, which causes many problems. Many more imprisoned for encountering a lot of violence. Assad started a policy that killed thousands. Which started the uprising of more small militias starting to become in the war. Which forces more deaths. And more
Syria is embroiled in a civil conflict that is tearing the country apart and the use of chemical weapons has made the US, France and Great Britain as well as the United Nations take issue with Syria. With the US occupied to its limit militarily there is little chance that an armed foreign intervention will take place. The status quo government stays in power and the rebels fight for