Syria -- UN voting on ceasefire monitors

You are probably aware that the United Nations brokered a cease fire in Syria that has now been in "effect" for the last week. As a result, only 42 people were killed yesterday in the country, the vast majority in the shelling by the Assad regime of the city of Homs. Little is said about the need for a "cease fire" when the opponents are unarmed civilians on the one side and the Syrian army on the other. Only one side has been shooting. Of course, the lack of any help to the civilians is changing this. The army got hit yesterday with a road side bomb, just like the ones used against coalition forces in Iraq. 15 police and soldiers were killed in the blast. My guess is that it will just be the first of many such explosions. The killing will just ramp up further, and in the middle of it all will be the innocent civilians whose role it will be to die for no reason.

Meanwhile back in the fantasy world of the UN, a vote is going to take place to approve sending 300 observers to Syria. Wow! What a step! The press can worry about whether or not the Chinese and Russians will agree to these observers. If they get approved, Obama and the Obamacrats can tell us about the great victory they have won. Then those 300 observers can go to Syria and watch the people getting slaughtered. What a victory.

The time has come for either the UN or some other group of nations to tell the Assad regime that the killing has to end. Either Assad stops killing the people or there will be serious consequences. That means arming the forces opposing Assad. That means bombing the armor and artillery that is shelling the civilian areas. That means imposing a naval blockade against Syria so that no weapons or other supplies useful for the armed forces gets delivered. That means imposing a no fly zone on Syria so that Iran cannot send supplies to Assad by air. In short, it means doing everything against the Assad regime except sending troops into the country.

This is the first time that I have actually called for such involvement but we just cannot continue to do nothing in the face of continuing murder. All of the worthless diplomatic initiatives have been tried. They have not worked. Something more is needed.