Last week in the middle of watching
my reality TV show I was interrupted by a national statement from President
Obama. In Syria, Assad has been using chemical weapons and chemical warfare
against rebels of the regime and as a result killing villages full of woman and
children. A majority of the nation jumped straight to the conclusion that we
were going to yet another war, but Obama broadcasted to clear things up and let
citizens know that a threat was placed on Assad that if he did not stop that
use of chemical weapons to eliminate those who opposed his ruling, then the U.S
would use military involvement to prohibit it. On September 16, 2013 it was
confirmed that there was a large-scale attack used on Syrian villages on August
21, 2013. 1,400 people were confirmed
casualties a majority of them being women and children. The UN war crimes panel
is investigating 14 other instances in the past year where Assad has used
chemical weapons on innocent people who no longer want to live in a
dictatorship-based society. Russia and
the United States have imposed a plan to avoid war, however is Assad decides
not to go along with this there is a possibility that military involvement will
occur. The deal is that Assad is to show us the locations of the weapons and
allow us to tally them and deport them from the country where they can be
destroyed. The deal sounds great until you realize that Assad needs to stay in
power for this deal to be enacted. A lot of people are opposing this policy
because no one wants Assad in power anymore and if he is still in power he will
continue to use the weapons. Assad packed up 200 trucks full of these weapons
and transported them to Lebanon and Iraq to try and deceive the UN.
I chose to read about this article
because I really had not heard about anything and when Obama came on my social
media places were filled with war talk and everyone thought that we were going
to war. I thought that I might as well get some background information on it if
this directly does affect my life. I thought that the way Oren Dorrell (the
author of this story) wrote about it was interesting and it was easy for me to
understand. He gave a lot of background information of the situation so people
like me who really had no idea what was going on got a good understanding. He
used a lot of quotes from different views so it was interesting for me to hear
different standpoints of the situation.
(people who survived the attack and are being treated from August 21)
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