Syria and The Torture of Children

I have learned, after my tenure with military intelligence, not to ever be shocked at what man is capable of doing to each other.  What continues to shock me, however, is our continuing indifference to the killing and torture of children.  There will always be collateral damage which needs to be minimized in any conflict, but to consciously go out and arrest children, torture and kill them is the epitome of evil.  To stand by while it happens and do nothing is less evil?  I think not.  We as a nation have finally become what other nations have called us for years, "The Evil Empire."

How many lines in the sand, Mr. President?  And why isn't this creating an outcry in the population, or Congress?  Have we become so insensitive, or is it desensitized?  What has happened to our leadership?  What has happened to our humanity?  

I, for one, an ashamed to call myself an American under this administration, and a human being under the auspices of this inept United Nations that allows this to continue.  How dare us!  We are already damned for what we have allowed to continue, when do we take a stand and say, ENOUGH!

I cry for the innocent.  I cry for the children.

For those not in the know, I have gleaned some numbers from Wikipedia:

Estimated death toll varies between 80,725 and 106,425.  As of July 4 the U.N. estimated the total at over 100,000.

UNICEF reports over 500 children have died as of early February 2012.  Another 400 reportedly arrested and tortured in Syrian prisons. 

By August 2013 the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the number of children killed in the conflict had risen to 5,553.  They also reported 3,607 women were also killed. 

The U.N. put the number of children killed at 6,561.

I contend that it is time to stop counting.  We have proven we can count.  Let us try proving we are still caring human beings.

I have to add one thing, since I stand up for them all the time, where the hell is Islam in all this?  This religion that I stand up for to family and friends, when no one else around me will.  Where is this brave culture of warriors.  Where is the rest of the Middle East?  This is your problem, my friends.  If I understand the Qur'an correctly, it allows you to protect yourselves from genocidal lunatics.  Or have you become so numb to the insanity around you?  I ask you, what is worse?  The Heretics that throw the Qur'an up in our faces, then ignore the sacred texts by reinterpreting them, or the faithful that hide behind it and ignore the text.  Better to let the children die?

I think not.  

Now is the time to garner some positive world opinion, show the world you are still a brave culture and not a rabble of cowardly suicidal heretics.  Rescue your children, your women, and protect the helpless from the insane dictator in your midst.  Or, you can take the stand the rest of the world seems to have taken.  What is a few thousand children, give or take?  And you dare to call us evil?

Hitler's staff, in the 1930's advised him, after listening to several world leaders:  The world doesn't care about the Jews, you can do with them what you want.

Is history repeating itself?  God save us all.

They are children, your children.  Whether you care for your own rich culture or not, I weep for their loss, as I weep for yours.

Help them.  Please!