Syria

So I’m going to talk about something meaningful today, something more important than me or you, or even my hate for Arabs, this is much larger than that. I’d like a moment to talk about the situation in Syria. It’s been going on for over a year now, and things get worse by the day, and if things keep going the way they have, then Syria doesn’t have much to look forward to. 

For those of you that don’t know I was in Jordan when the Arab protests started. I think they started with Tunisia, and then Egypt, and then Libya, and Yemen got in there at some point too, and then last we had Syria. All the other crises ended a few months after they'd begun, but as I mentioned the situation in Syria has been going on for over a year. 

I was there when the refugees began to flee; I was living less than an hour away from the border back then. They came with stories of kids being snatched up from their homes, never to be heard from again. And that was only the first few months. 

After I left Jordan things escalated for the worse. I remember my Syrian friend calling me to tell me that one of our friends in Syria was killed. I used to visit Syria frequently before the protests started. He told me how they had raped his sister and then killed them both, she was only 9. Unfortunately this scene wasn’t unpopular and slowly it became almost natural there. 

Then the massacres started, where they'd kill hundreds of children in a single week; take people out of their homes, torture and sexually assault them and even use children as human shields. 


Here's a video that everyone should see: http://youtu.be/F415nYV_PNg

I know the US and France and a bunch of other countries are trying to interfere, and so is the UN, but it's been going on for over a year. But my question isn’t for the people trying to help, but for the people preventing others from helping the people of Syria, and the men and woman in Syria causing all of this. When did we lose our humanity? When did we become so selfish that we let hundreds of children and woman die right in front of us, and worse kill them? 

I’m trying to understand how these people think. Do they not see the repercussions of their actions? What kind of person would kill a helpless child and go on to kill more? 

Most people just blame the government, but I blame the people. If no one followed Hitler we wouldn't have had a Holocaust. When did we let our humanity go for so called duty? 

The unfortunate thing is that we're all to blame, because we sit in our homes as countries wage war against each other, and children die, and we don't do anything about it.