Thursday 5 September 2013

Invitation to Third World War?

The Chemical Attack on Syrians which killed 1400 people including 400 children was one of the heinous act in the world history. I am not sure if Assad government was involved but obviously attack at such level cannot be done by some small group of un-influential people.
Then, there is Obama who wants to teach a lesson to Assad for doing what he did. He plans to launch some missiles which will do a lot of destruction if not equal to what chemical attack has done in terms of killing innocent people.
Some people who are autocrats and will do anything to retain their power will do anything to hurt their own people and we as an outsider would do nothing and just sit around and say its too bad, doing nothing. If Assad has really done it, he is not the first one. In the past, Saddam Hussein did similar thing and he kind of paid the price. 
I am really confused and I want to know the answers of two questions. 
We as outsiders, have UN , sanctions and rules for world peace but when something happens like this, can anyone do anything to help the local people?
So my confusion is whether we should take some action or not? Is Obama right in what he is doing? Launching an attack will make those who have done such thing, afraid that they just can't do whatever they want to and the world is watching. but what about those innocent people who will bear collateral damage?
Or Should we just keep quite, use sanctions and bad words to solve the problem?
Then, what is the confirmation that after this attack those people will actually be afraid of doing sch things in the future?
and my last concern, what if this becomes big? what if Syrian allies come to its rescue and US allies for its own and few non interested countries are dragged into it? 
What if we are looking at 3rd World War?