The New York Times
Published: August 30, 2013
Regardless of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian military, the killing of more than 100,000 Syrian people is more than enough
for the world to call it a violation of international humanitarian
standards and to fulfill its moral obligation to stop the bloodshed.
The Cambodian people weren’t so fortunate after the Khmer Rouge embarked on their murderous reign of terror
in 1975. They waited for years for the international community to come
to their rescue. It was not until the Khmer Rouge had slaughtered and
starved to death nearly two million Cambodians that the military of a
neighboring country came to end their rule.
Intervention by the United States will not only help deter the Syrian
military from killing their own people, but will set a precedent that
the world will not stand by and watch any more rogue states repeat the same mistakes as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
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