I don't. But apparently many on the Right seem to think that because it's bad to kill your citizens and the President said something about a "red" line once upon a time, that by default makes us required to go in and clean up an ongoing civil war in another Muslim country where we won't be welcomed. Ok, from a concerned American approach I get it, but let me ask you this: What the Hell makes Syria so special?

Look around the region, kids. Syria isn't the only government killing its people in a desperate attempt to maintain what control it has left, it's only the latest. Play "Pin the Tail on the Map of Africa" and you'll win every time when it comes to the selection of an unstable government by means of pin placement. Forget nation building, lets do continent building!

Anybody who's in the military right now or any American with a family member or relative probably understands our Area of Operations (AO) in the Middle East. Over the past decade we've done great things in Iraq and Afghanistan and effectively surrounded that other country some on the Right can't seem to wait and blow up, Iran. With a sustained troop presence planned for quite some time, despite what the Clown Car Driver tells you, moving into Syria if called upon to do so, or Jordan, Turkey, or wherever else necessary to launch Syrian nullification operations, we as a military force could do it. But what's the point? Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is stuck fighting the oh so honorable and freshest Sunni/Shiite conflict that he can't win, against a largely Al-Qaeda backed rebel force that we can't support. I mean other than with pom-poms from a cookout with live look ins on TV rooting for both sides to keep up the good work, of course.

This isn't our fight, America. I don't care what Senator John McCain tries to sell by vacationing abroad with rebel commanders. I respect everything that man ever did during Vietnam and the hell he went through as a Prisoner of War from 1967 - 1973, but if you think America needs another war or "overseas contingency operation", then by all means head down to the local recruiters office and sign up. Give them my name so I can get a referral bonus. At least that way I could take you serious. As for McCain, he's a walking lobbyist for term limits. I don't care about Obama's red line comment. Everyone, including Assad, knew then he didn't really mean it. He would have been better of deferring to allies in the region or even better, laying the ball at the feet of China.

Why not China? Why do we allow them to be one of five to sit at the big boy table as permanent members of the UN Security Council? In the Global War on Terror, what the hell have they done but move in to profit from the vast natural resources discovered in Afghanistan that we refused to do while in Iraq? What the hell has this "mighty" emerging military and economic giant done to help make the world a better place against radical Islam? Not a damn thing. France? They've been in the fight with us since day one. The United Kingdom? Self-explanatory. Russia? Without them we couldn't transport equipment safely into and out of Afghanistan. China? Not a damn thing. Some are so eager to talk about the wonders of China and how their hybrid system of organizing government and economic affairs is the wave of the future, well lets find out! I mean we all know how much they respect "Human Rights" as we claim this is what it's all about. Give them the microphone on the world stage they so desperately crave and lets see what kind of knowledge they drop. Apparently everyone is so enthralled with their military build up, lets see how they do logistically. Hell, they don't even have to go that far or cross an ocean to do so. This should be cake work for the tip of the spear Chinese, right? Show us! I legitimately want to see this. If I'm a senior military official recommending courses of action to the commander in chief, I'm uttering repeatedly the name "China" to the point where I'm asked to leave the room while holding a phone that was made in China with Xi Jinping on the line.

Syria admittedly is a world problem. I got it. But this one is not ours to solve. After 12 years of combat operations, it damn sure isn't the burden of our military to bear. Our men and women in uniform need a break. It's time to go to the bull pen. China, you've got the mound.