Just Say No! in QUOTIDIEN

I am against taking military in Syria. And no, it isn't about indifference. It's because we don't have all the information, we cannot be sure who has done what to whom. And even with that information, if its the deaths that we are responding to, is starting a war going to improve that or not?

And for the life of me, i cant name the last country (other than Cheney and his cronies) that actually benefitted from our military actions. None. Wherever we've been, we've left behind the corpses of innocents (collateral damage), and unrest.

I understand the 'oh my God, we have to do something' sentiment. It is the same feeling you get when you see thousands of soldiers' headstones, knowing that they died for nothing. That nothing good came of what they went to fight for-that peace did not come of the efforts that took their lives.

And ask the war-weary, US citizens who they see when there is talk of yet another war? Rows and rows of our own, fallen children, killed just as surely as if they were poisoned, for an ideal that is clearly not achievable through war.