You know what? It's simply a fact that Assad is killing people

[Vehl]

81. +1000 I have experienced this in my own life.

I totally Agree.

The whole "The Syrian protestors are western stooges" claim is beyond ridiculous. Asad is a dictator!!! I wonder what part of "Dictator" those who support Assad's regime do not understand? The argument put forth by those who are against any form of interventionism in Syria sound more and more like Bushian logic. Similar to the "Either you are with us, or against us", they claim that any uprising in non-pro western nation is a western plot, while those in pro-western nations are legitimate struggles.

As you correctly pointed out, what's happening in Syria is No different from what happened in Egypt or Libya. Similar stuff also happens in Tibet, Srilanka, Burma, Darfur..the list goes on.

Its naive to think that all protests will be easily defined in clear-cut terms.

As a kid, and as a person of Srilankan origin (Albeit the minority) I had to dodge bullets and bombs every day of my life, for years. Some of my earliest memories are of cowering in the cellar of my grandparents house, hoping the helicopter Gunships piloted by the Srilankan Army will not shoot in my direction...or that one of the tens of thousands of artillery shells fired indiscriminately against centers of civilian population(cities etc) will not find its way into the cellar. I know what the people in the besieged towns in Syria are going through...because i've gone through it. I also know how most countries turn a blind eye...because some powers that be support the corrupt/dictatorial governments. Years later...in the late 2000s I heard these same arguments even as nearly 20000 civilians were killed in Srilanka by the military...that it is an "internal matter, and other nations should not interfere".

Amnesty international/Red Cross/Doctors without borders protested those killings..just as they are protesting these, but I see history repeating, and more people dying..all because we are too damn isolationist. The same happens in Darfur, in Tibet, and in some African/South American countries. My experiences have made me a liberal democrat, but an interventionist one. I will not be the one who sits by and takes on the "out of sight, out of mind" attitude a considerable number of others seem to take. Maybe if they were in the boots of the Syrian people, they will change their opinion in a jiffy.