Dear Editor:

An emphatic “no” to intervention in Syria, and here is why:

1. President Barack Obama is not trusted as a world leader, and that is simply why all three of America's traditional Middle East allies, including The Arab League, Great Britain and the United Nations, have given Obama a vote of no confidence, and refused to join him in any coalition for intervening in Syria.

2. The military “proposal” remains deliberately vague regarding scope and duration, due mostly to the political unctuousness of our conniving and effete “Commander In Chief.”

3. Nobody in Syria, not Assad, and not the rebels, are in any way allies of America.

4.The Syrian dilemma (chemical warfare, about two million refugees fleeing Syria, children enduring unspeakable horrors and the deaths of numerous friends and family members) is a problem entirely caused by the peculiar societal aberrations of the religiously cultist Middle East, and under no circumstances should the United States, a Western Judeo-Christian culture founded on the principles of love, unity, peace and reconciliation, have to further involve itself in this savage and tribally motivated massacre while it lasts. Of course, in the end, we are morally obligated to help clean up the mess, as we have always done.

Syria is not Obama's problem (he has now finally and fittingly become too small to matter on the world political stage), nor is it America's problem (we, at least so far, remain much bigger than all that).

The answer is an emphatic no.

Phil Molvar
Southport