From The Onion

The Case For And Against Intervening In Syria

FOR:

• It’s the right thing to do, maybe
• Let American people finally sleep at night after years of being tormented by thoughts of innocent Syrians dying
• Will put thousands of honest, diligent American Tomahawk cruise missiles back to work
  
  AGAINST:
  
  
• Slight, almost infinitesimal chance intervention might be a completely ineffectual act that even further destabilizes the region, touching off massive anti-American sentiment while allowing jihadist radicals to take power
• Painful memories of intervening in Rwandan genocide
• It’s hard
• Bashar al-Assad just had a baby. A baby!
• Bush invaded a foreign country. If Obama invades a foreign country, he will be like Bush. It is not good to be like Bush.
• If we ever want to patch things up with Assad, this won’t exactly make that conversation a cake walk
• Situation might work itself out