[humblegunner]

It is however and undisputed fact that tens of thousands (or perhaps as many as 250,000) of civilians died as a result of the US Civil War

If a blog predicted that the sun would rise in the morning
I would seek other confirmation. Any retard can write a blog.

[AnalogReigns]

And foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Following your logic, you had better stop reading or posting on Free Republic, “as any retard can write a blog.”

My undisputed point is that even with our democratic, freedom loving, human-rights respecting US government—we killed a heck of a lot of civilians in our own Civil War.

Therefore we should keep out of the dictatorial, freedom-hating, human-rights ignoring, Syrian-government’s war—and not be surprised that yes, they do kill civilians. As Uncle Sam has as well!

[wideawake]

The reason not to intervene in Syria's civil war is clear.

It does not need to be based on specious comparisons to the US Civil War.

The reason is that there is no armed faction in Syria that can be used as an ally.

You have the government, who are Milosevic-style Red fascists. You have the Sunni extremists, who are effectively Al-Qaeda. You have the Shi'ites, who are effectively proxies of Iran and Hezbollah. The Christians are small in number, have no armed resistance and are associated with Assad.

There is no mission.