Tired of war

Dear Editor,

President Obama has informed us that a military strike against Syria has been placed on hold.

Experts tell us that Russia is trying to obtain a guarantee that the United States won't attack Syria.

Some sources say that Russia has plans to control all the arms and chemicals used by Syria in its civil war. (They furnish many of them.)

Stability in the Middle East is at stake. Israel and Jordan, who are caught in the cross hairs of this situation, are depending on us to make the right decision. Other countries look up to our country as the moral leader of the world.

Everyone seems to be studying Bashard Assad and trying to predict the outcome of the Syrian crisis. He came to power in 2000. It was hoped at that time that he would be more in touch with democratic principles existing in Western Europe.

He spent two years in London studying ophthalogy so he could become an eye doctor. He speaks fluent English.

Unfortunately,

Assad inherited a dictatorship from his father and older brother, who both are deceased.

When civil war erupted in 2011 he followed the same cruel methods that they used.

As Argus Hamilton, a contributer to the McCook Gazette recently said, "Assad believes in 'an eye-for-an-eye.'"

The question is, where do we go from here? Americans are tired of 10 years of war and the cost of it, as well as the lives that have been lost.

Helen Ruth Arnold,

Trenton, Nebraska