BBC News: Reports that three thousand people have been killed in Syria since the unrest started in March, President Assad has stated that Syria could become another Afghanistan should the West take action over these deaths. It can be argued with some justification that Syria is in a state of low level civil war already, how many deaths will it take for the West to act, Syria is not Libya, it has a good defence structure, is supported by Iran, also it’s a Presidential Election next year in the US, the Libyan War was not popular, any US action in Syria would be costly, it would need more that Air power to get rid of the Assad Regime. The UN is frozen, after Libya and regime change Russia and China are not willing to give the US and the West a free hand, one can argue that they don’t want something to come back to bite them on the backside. Thus what will it take for the West to act, and by the West this blog means, US, UK and France, and Italy if it has a Government, it will more deaths folks, a armed revolt, blood on our TV screens, calls in the Guardian, New York Times, left wing papers for some kind of action, and even then it might not be enough folks, the Syrian people have to fight for their freedom, it wont be handed to them by the UN and the West.
