Why the world can't keep silent on Syria

 Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the repressive regime of Bashar al-Assad has turned into a brutal civil war. Over 100,000 people have been killed. Millions have fled the country. In that time, America has worked with allies to provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate opposition, and to shape a political settlement. But calls for military action has been resisted by many including Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's government,with the view that the world cannot resolve someone else’s civil war through force, particularly after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The situation turned sour,on August 21st, when Assad’s government gassed to death over a thousand people, including hundreds of innocent children. The images from this massacre are sickening: Men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gas.On that terrible night, the world saw in gruesome detail the terrible nature of chemical weapons, and why the overwhelming majority of humanity has declared them off-limits -- a crime against humanity, and a violation of the laws of war.
In World War I, thousands GIs of American were killed by deadly gas in the trenches of Europe. In World War II, the Nazis used gas to inflict the horror of the Holocaust.These weapons can kill on a mass scale, with no distinction between soldier and infant, the civilized world has spent a century working to ban them. And in 1997, the United States Senate overwhelmingly approved an international agreement prohibiting the use of chemical weapons, now joined by 189 governments(U.N) that represent 98 percent of humanity.

These basic rules were violated on August 21st,along with our sense of common humanity. Evidence of the use of chemical weapons in Syria were available for everyone seeking to find one,with thousands of videos, cell phone pictures, and social media accounts of the attack, and stories told by humanitarian organizations  of hospitals packed with people who had symptoms of poison gas.
Moreover,it became so clear in the days leading up to August 21st that Assad’s chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin gas. They distributed gas-masks to their troops. Then they fired rockets from a regime-controlled area into 11 neighborhoods that the regime has been trying to wipe clear of opposition forces.The gas spread, and hospitals got filled with the dying and the wounded.

When dictators commit atrocities, they depend upon the world to look the other way until those horrifying pictures fade from memory. But the U.N and the rest of the world can not that these things happened. The question now is what the United States of America, and the international community, is prepared to do about it. Because what happened to those people -- to those children -- is not only a violation of international law, it’s also a danger to world security.
If the "world" fail to act, the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons. As the ban against these weapons erodes, other tyrants will have no reason to think twice about acquiring poisonous gas, and using them. Over time,our wold would again face the prospect of chemical warfare on the battlefield. And it could be easier for terrorist organizations to obtain these weapons, and to use them to attack civilians.
 This is not a world we seek.This is what’s at stake. And that is why, after careful deliberation,the U.N must stop Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons by any means necessary and to make clear to the world that we will not tolerate their use.