Syria and WWIII

Salvete. No, I did not meet my quota of trip posts. My apologies.

Yesterday I heard from The Blaze (a conservative news source) that America will attack Syria today. I had earlier learned that Russia, China, and Iran plan to react heavily to America's attack on Syria. WWIII may thus start today.

Let me be clear: Invading Syria would be one of the stupidest things (if not the stupidest thing) America has done in its history. We tried intervention in Egypt. After suffering a new, tyrannical dictator, Egypt now has a military dictatorship. Fun. We invaded Libya, assuming that the overthrow of the Libyan dictator would mean that all is well in Libya with a brand-new, absolutely-perfect democracy. People were so grateful that they killed our ambassador. We just watched it happen and did nothing.

It's sad to see that Russia and China seem to be waking up before America. Granted, Syria is an ally to Russia, but Russia knows what American intervention would lead to. Assad's dictatorship would be replaced by chaos that would shock the nation for decades on end.

America knows what happened to Egypt, Libya, and even Iraq, yet it may very well choose to once again intervene and knock out another pillar of stability in the Middle East. To do this, America would have to risk waging World War III. And for what? Another dose of turmoil in the region? They can't possibly believe that democracy will come out of this.

Well, if we survive today, I'll write again soon.