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You probably heard about Trump bombing Syria a few days ago, but it can be difficult to
grasp the full extent of what's going on over there, and what's been going on for years.
I'm not going to pretend to fully understand the conflict and all its intricacies, even
Obama said it was one of the hardest things he had to deal with as President, but I'm
going to do my best to summarize the recent events for you in a few minutes.
There's one thing I know for sure, though, and it's that a reality TV star is probably
not the best person to be in charge of our military at a time like this.
So, first let's start with a little backstory.
The Syrian Civil War has been going on since 2011, and there are a lot of different sides
involved, but in a way oversimplified version, it's essentially Bashar al-Assad's government
against the rebellion, which includes the Free Syrian Army, the Syrian Democratic Forces,
and a bunch other rebel groups that don't all entirely agree with each other, and ISIS
is also fighting against both sides in an effort to take control of the region.
A study by the Syrian Centre for Policy research estimated that by February 2016, nearly 500,000
people had been killed and 2 million had been injured over the course of the Civil War,
and that number has undoubtedly risen substantially in the last year.
Over 5 million Syrian refugees have been registered outside of Syria by the United Nations High
Commissioner on Refugees, which is the official organization
resettling Syrian refugees in other countries.
They estimate that another 6 million people have been internally displaced within Syria,
meaning that they had to flee their homes because of violence but stayed within the country.
That's about 11 million people total who've been forced to leave their homes, out of a
country with only about 23 million people -- so nearly half the population.
Assad's government has been guilty of a lot of wrongdoing.
The Civil War broke out when Assad chose to fight peaceful protests by killing and jailing protesters.
Since then, his regime has killed civilians regularly, using weapons that kill indiscriminately
like barrel bombs, and also by starving entire cities and depriving them of resources like medicine.
The situation is really bad, but the US has mostly stayed out of it.
The reasons for that are, of course, complicated, but one of the large ones is that the US government
hasn't wanted to get dragged into another long drawn-out war in the Middle East.
Plus, Russia has been backing Assad's regime, so any kind of attack on Assad could provoke
Russia and escalate a larger conflict between the US and Russia.
In many ways, the Civil War in Syria is a proxy for other countries' interests in
the region, and because of that, what happens there has global effects.
The US almost got involved in August of 2013 when evidence came out
that Syria had used chemical weapons on civilians.
Obama almost decided to retaliate against them for that.
He asked congress for approval, but they probably would have voted against intervening in Syria.
So instead, before they voted, he decided to work out a diplomatic deal with Syria and
Russia where Syria was meant to destroy all of their chemical weapons.
At that time, Donald Trump was strongly against intervening in Syria.
He tweeted about it a lot, telling President Obama to stay out of Syria, saying that "very
bad things" would happen if he attacked. Fast forward to 2017.
Trump is now our President, and Assad has once again used chemical weapons on civilians.
The attack was atrocious and sickening and completely against international law.
But the US faces the same predicament that it had in 2013.
An attack against Assad could provoke a larger war with Russia, and it could drag the US
into a long and fruitless war in Syria.
I certainly don't know what the right move is in this situation, and I don't think anyone does.
Foreign policy experts have been dealing with this situation and situations very similar
to it for a long time now, and they've managed to screw up quite a lot of them.
I don't think there's any perfect solution that can solve all the problems.
Every line of action has negative consequences.
However, what's bizarre about Trump's decision to bomb one of Syria's airbases
is that his position for so long has been to stay out of Syria.
That was a major talking point during his campaign.
He didn't even seek congressional approval for the attack -- which was something
he said Obama needed back in 2013.
It seems like he got emotional and made a decision without fully understanding the ramifications
of how that might pan out in the future.
Right now, it looks like this was a one-time thing.
Trump was responding to Syria's use of chemical weapons, specifically, not condemning them
for the other ways they kill civilians.
It wasn't intended to protect innocent Syrians from any other kind of violence.
It was simply a move against chemical weapons.
This is in line with the US's desire to prevent the spread of chemical weapons as a tactic used in war.
But now what happens if Assad uses chemical weapons again?
Will there be another retaliatory attack?
Russia has already spoken out against this attack by the US,
and another one could escalate the situation even further.
Another odd thing about it, though, is that Trump had previously said that the US shouldn't
warn Syria before attacking, but the Trump administration did notify Russia about the
attack in an effort to protect Russian and Syrian personnel.
It just seems like a total 180 on everything he had previously had to say about Syria.
And on top of all this, Trump has tried twice now to ban all Syrian refugees from entering
the US, at a time when Syrian refugees are desperately in need of help.
His executive order in January banned them indefinitely, and his revised executive order
in March banned them for 120 days -- but both bans have been blocked by the judicial branch.
So I don't really believe him when he says that he cares for the lives of innocent Syrians,
because he's willing to turn so many of them away when millions are in need of a safe place to go.
They're just trying to escape a conflict that is horrific.
And Trump is willing to appeal to that humanitarian side when it comes to justifying his attack
on the Syrian airbase, but he ignores it when considering his policy towards Syrian refugees.
Like I said, I don't think there's a perfect solution to this.
Maybe this will intimidate Assad and prevent him from using chemical weapons in the future.
Maybe it won't, and the US will slowly get pulled into another expensive and unending war.
Maybe this is the beginning of a proxy war with Russia.
But however it plays out, Syrians are going to lose, and Trump is doing nothing to really help them.
He's interested in preventing the spread of chemical weapons, which is good, but he
doesn't seem particularly interested in protecting innocent civilians from any other kind of atrocity.
He doesn't want to expand our refugee program to help Syrians fleeing violence, and he's
completely flip-flopped on his promise to stay out of Syria.
His policy at the moment is just inconsistent and messy, and I really can't believe he's
the one in charge of all of this.
If you would like to help, the best thing you can do is donate to the International
Rescue Committee or the UNHCR -- two amazing
organizations that are on the ground in Syria helping refugees.
You can also call your senators and representatives and
tell them that you want the US to accept more Syrian refugees.
I'll have links for all of that down in the description.
And that is everything I had for you today.
Thanks for watching this episode of Politics with Riley, and I'll see you next time.
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