Anyone who has been following the civil war in Syria knows that over 100,000 people have been killed. That number may be wrong by thousands, because more than 1.5 million Syrians have become refugees, having left their home country. There are over 4 million Syrians displaced from their homes. The UN, nor the United States or its allies, have found their misery and deaths to be worth interfering into the civil war in Syria.

On August 21, the Syrian government has been accused of attacking with sarin gas in the Damascus suburbs. The group Doctors Without Borders put the death toll at 355, but not all necessarily from gas poisoning. Having neglected the nearly 3 years of war, President Obama suddenly wants to get involved and stationed our Navy off the coast in preparation for military action. Where is the logic to avenge 355 dead from gas when there are over 100,000 from normal military weapons? The Geneva Convention in 1925 thought that poison gas was a scourge on the Earth, but what would its opinion of our nuclear bombs, cruise missiles and other weapons of mass destruction now reflect? Would the Geneva Convention signors in 1925 find IEDs blowing up in public areas more humane than sarin gas attacks? Should our country using drones to kill selectively, but indiscriminately, be less volatile than sarin gas? Drone delivered air strikes don’t differentiate between enemy combatant and women or children. If women and children are present, they’re collateral damage. Dead is dead; whether it is 355 by gas or 100,000 by conventional military might.

I think it is hypocritical to use the 355 gas deaths as an excuse to enter in their civil war. The side that we would be aiding has known ties to the Al-Nusra Front, which his aligned with al-Qaida. There were at least two gas attacks on a much smaller scale prior to August 21. Is it possible that unknown perpetrators were experimenting to learn expertise on the use of a gas attack? I’m going to bet Syria knows how to use sarin gas and doesn’t need to experiment with small doses for practice. History has proven time and again that nothing in the Middle East is as it seems. Your friend today will kill you tomorrow.

Samples of the gas were collected. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is affiliated with the United Nations, has certified 18 institutes worldwide for the analysis of chemical and biological weapons. Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Spain and Germany all declined to test the samples. Like the UN, no country besides the United States wants to get into this war in Syria. The only exceptions are based on the opposing Islamic forces. They don’t seem to have qualms about killing anyone.