Originally Posted by
Scythax
The problem is that since the country has no tactical stakes in the UN, they simply don't care enough. And even if this does get to the news and the entire world hears about it, that still does nothing.
People are apathetic. A family of 5 will be sitting and watching tv, and they'll see the madness that's gripped Syria. The killings, the atrocities, and they'll feel terrible and say "Oh wow that's aweful"...and then they'll go back to their dinners.
The only way this kind of power lock Syria is stuck in can be fixed is via show of force, or covert assassination. That's the blunt end of things. Protests do nothing except fill the pockets of journalists, and needlessly get people killed. Peaceful or not. If the UN hasn't stepped in by now, they honestly have no intention to. Same thing happened in Rwanda. The UN knew WAY beforehand that a civil war was going to break out between the hutus and tutsis, and they only sent people in there months after the genocide was over, with 'sorry' stapled on their foreheads to save the effort of making it sound honest.
To the OP, please don't think I don't care about Syria, it's troubles, it's people, and about you and your safety. I just want to get the message across that if anything is going to change, it isn't going to happen with hand holding. Society's held up by the bones of dead men. War shapes this world. It's human nature. More often than not the world gets it right and the mad and cruel are kept away from the big red buttons, but sometimes they fall through the cracks in the system, and change is a result. Nothing more, nothing less. It's the cycle of humanity, and as long as positions of superior power exist in the world there will always be those who try to take it.I hope the situation is resolved is resolved one way or another, sooner rather than later. But people need to stop being so nieve and thinking this doesn't happen every day all over the world. Because guess what. It does.