History repeats itself

Finally, after months of fighting between government and rebel forces in Syria, the U.S. has called for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step aside.

At present there is an estimated 2000 dead in Syria and many experts feel Assad could use chemical warfare to quell the rebellion. The question on many people’s minds is why after decades of Syrian terrorist activities and repression of human rights are we only now standing up and saying something?

Assad’s father, Hafez al Assad, used cyanide gas on the city of Hama then bulldozed the city with an estimated 20,000 killed. So, the family policy in the nation has always been brutal and dictatorial.

Now, four decades later, the son is following in his father’s footsteps. History is repeating itself with brutal similarity, but like Libya and Egypt what took so long to voice our disapproval?

The violence in Syria and Egypt coupled with Islamic fundamentalists poised to take control of these nations poses a threat to Israel as well as the troubled nations themselves and the chemical and biological arsenal of Syria is but a heartbeat away from terrorists. Can it get much worse? Sadly, yes!