In a truly just world, the U.S. should not align itself with countries like Saudi Arabia or other repressive countries in other parts of the world like China and Russia, but we do and should do so for our national interest.

So once again the U.S. and Russia are negotiating a possible peaceful solution regarding Syria’s use of gas, despite an international accord against doing so for decades.


Because our ventures into Iraq and Afghanistan are failures the U.S., in my opinion, should not become neo-isolationist and must stand up to evil.  If not, us, who else will do it? 

I say that even though I believe that the U.S. should not have a policy of intervening in other countries civil wars, unless it is in the interests of the U.S. and our allies or to prevent genocide. But having a policy and sticking to it no matter what happens is ridiculous.

Exceptions must be made and while I originally was against the U.S. from intervening in Syria I have changed my mind.

And to be realistic, all who write on the subject are just pundits. And like those who make a living as "journalists," we are expressing personal opinions without really knowing the secret thinking behind government actions.  [I've spent some years traveling as a media advisor with foreign governments and working on local, state and national U.S. political campaigns but not being an egotist I realize that what I was told was often severely limited.]

If someone criticizes what I write, so be it:  their opinions are at least as valid as mine. As for why I changed my mind about Syria: the world stood still when Winston Churchill warned the world about appeasing the Nazis before WW2.

And look what it led to. The world stood still when the Nazis began gassing its own citizens and those in the rest of Europe.

And it led to the Holocaust. The American public stood still when an isolationist Congress blocked FDR from uniting with Churchill to stop the Nazis advance before they over ran Europe. And that led to Japan bombing a "paper tiger" U.S.

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Arthur Solomon was a Senior Vice President/Senior Counselor at Burson-Marsteller, where he handled national and international accounts and traveled worldwide with top foreign government and Olympic officials as a media consultant. He is available at [email protected].