The people of Syria are heavy on my heart. I don’t know the right thing to do. Will a group of madmen get the message and change their ways if we bomb them? Will they kill more of their own people chemically if we do nothing? Does the U.S. have the right to enforce international moral agreements, and have we done that so often that the rest of the world expects us to be the world’s police force? Does the U.S. have a moral obligation to protect human life elsewhere—and is our doing more killing protecting that life, considering that some innocents are bound to be harmed? Or is that, too, a form of madness? Are there NO other answers?
I call on everyone to pray, meditate, send good vibes to the universe, or whatever you do when you search for an answer to a problem too big for you to handle alone. Concentrate not just on solving the seemingly unsolvable dilemma but also on the Syrian families—especially the children—who are, through no fault of their own, caught up in the middle of it.
