ROCKETS KILL TWO WESTERN JOURNALISTS

The two Western journalists were killed when rockets struck and demolished the house they were staying in, activists and witnesses in Homs told Reuters by telephone. They were named as Marie Colvin, an American working for Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, and French photographer Remi Ochlik.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/22/us-syria-idUSL5E8DB0BH20120222/

it's terrible whats going on over there and what i see on the news and how the media is stressing the point the US should get involved irks me.Theres how many countries over there and yet the US has to solve the Syria issue.Our presence over there has made those countries lazy.They just expect the US to intervene.It's almost as they've fogotten it's 1 world.

There is more than meets the eye with this.

Going after Gaddaffi and not Assad has me believing that some sort of behind the curtain nonsense going on..

The Arab League demanding action by the UN and Russia and China ignoring them and vetoing the Security Council resolution..

It is quite intriguing..

The violence in Syria is terrible, sure, but it is a different case compared to Libya.

For one, Syria is more militarily powerful than Libya and would cause some damage on whoever attacked.

Also, Syria has many religious and other minorities which was protected by the secular Asad regime. The fear being that once the opposing side gain power they could usher in an Islmasist government who would not look too kindly on their non-muslim minorities, many of whom work for Assad and are throwing in their lot with him and oppose the uprising.

Something has to be done to stop the violence of course, and america and the west have the most capable military if action is called for. The arab league will need to have a mjor presence in this case tho and have their troops on the ground so as it wont look like another 'western regime change'
As spiderman says, 'with power comes responsibility'

I get your points, but that doesn't explain the veto of the security council resolution..

Syria is a tiny oil producer.. So they aren't going to be able to bribe Russia or China with oil..

I doubt either care about protecting religious minorities..

An Islamist state immediately declares war on the west..Something else Russia and China could care less about..

So why the veto?

I may be wrong here but I had heard that Russia and Syria are allies and have close ties. Russia is simply standing up for their ally. Russia also claims that direct military intervention would cause more harm as no one has a clear idea on who the rebels are and what they stand for, aside from over throwing Assad. Russia had said that they can talk Assad out of the ongoing violence though so far they have clearly been unsuccessful.
I have no doubt there are behind-the-curtain deals taking place but is this not the case for any international crisis?

As for why China vetoed, I don't know. Because they can?

It's because Al Qauda has it's forces deployed in Syria and we don't want to be sided with those a$$hats.

All though I think we should try to knock off Assad, that's as far as we should go.

Yes, Russia has at least one military base in Syria plus Iran is deploying forces there now also to help Assad.

Though you understand simply knocking off Assad with no plan for the aftermath would just lead to chaos, Iraq all over again. THAT is what al qauda want and thrive in. There has to be an orderly and controlled transfer of power. Problem is that right now there is no clear alternative to hand the power to

Syria is already in Chaos anyways.................