I place blame at at the feet of my own nation before I do others.
We're killing them with freedom.

killing people is beyond my understanding. The United States has killed over 1.3 BILLION PEOPLE SINCE 1945.
If there was any justice in this world then every president since then would be brought up on war crime charges.
Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya Syria and the many other military actions in countries that haven't threatened the US or its NATO allies are against the Nuremberg principle.
And then there's the many countries that the US has trained their military to kill people or torture them because they threatened the status quo.
Then add in the coups that have removed elected governments and saw brutal dictators installed who then commit heinous human rights violations while the US government agencies whose jobs are to stop these actions from happening sit back and do nothing. Unless the dictator that was installed quits playing by the rules of letting US interests steal their resources or build their factories or pipelines. Then those dictators need to be removed.
There hasn't been a war to protect the US or its freedoms for over a century.
Yes Japan attacked us at Pearl Harbor, but why did the US not just attack Japan instead of going to Germany and other countries in Europe?
We know that the banks and many people and corporations were funding Hitler and both sides of the war.
There is evidence that Roosevelt and Churchill were aware of the concentration camps in 1941. Many boatloads of Jewish and other people trying to come to the US were refused entry and sent back to die.
Over 3 million people in Vietnam were killed by US troops, bombs and Agent Orange.
We watched thousands of Iraqis die on live tv during Shock and Awe and for what? The people there were no threat to the US and over 500 thousand children died because of the sanctions that the Clinton administration put on Iraq. How many other people also died from those sanctions? The government knew that the sanctions weren't going to affect Saddam, but his people.
During the Iraq war depleted uranium bombs were used in Fallujah and elsewhere and we know that thousands of babies are being born with hideous birth defects because of those bombs l that's another war crime.
The Iranian people went through the same thing when the US sanctioned Iran. Women couldn't get the medicine that they needed for cancer treatment, antibiotics and other medications weren't allowed in.
Then after Iraq war destroyed the country, Obama, Hillary and the US military decided that Gaddafi was next to go. Anyone know why he needed to be removed? Was it because he was planning to create a gold backed currency to compete with the US dollar and the Euro?
According to this article, yes.
And as the reason for many of the wars, the US and its allies wanted his oil and other resources and to build their own pipelines.
Hillary was instrumental in getting Obama to attack Syria without any regard to what will happen after Assad is removed, just like no one cared about what would happen to Iraq and Libya after Saddam and Gaddafi were removed.
But having the terrorists take over those countries is good for the defense contractor's profits
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/01/06/new-hillary-emails-reveal...

But historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency

And the reason for the Syrian war was for the same reason for all the other so called wars.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/seymour-hershs-news-report-banned...

The interviewer asked why Obama is so obsessed to replace Assad in Syria, since «The power vacuum that would ensue would open Syria up to all kinds of jihadi groups»; and Hersh replied that not only he, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff, «nobody could figure out why». He said, «Our policy has always been against him [Assad]. Period». This has actually been the case not only since the Party that Assad leads, the Ba’ath Party, was the subject of a shelved CIA coup-plot in 1957 to overthrow and replace it; but, actually, the CIA’s first coup had been not just planned but was carried out in 1949 in Syria, overthrowing there a democratically elected leader, in order to enable a pipeline for the Sauds’ oil to become built through Syria into the largest oil market, Europe; and, construction of the pipeline started the following year. But, there were then a succession of Syrian coups (domestic instead of by foreign powers – 1954, 1963, 1966, and, finally, in 1970), concluding in the accession to power of Hafez al-Assad during the 1970 coup. And, the Sauds' long-planned Trans-Arabia Pipeline has still not been built. The Saudi royal family, who own the world’s largest oil company, Aramco, don’t want to wait any longer. Obama is the first US President to have seriously tried to carry out their long-desired «regime change» in Syria, so as to enable not only the Sauds’ Trans-Arabian Pipeline to be built, but also to build through Syria the Qatar-Turkey Gas Pipeline that the Thani royal family (friends of the Sauds) who own Qatar want also to be built there. The US is allied with the Saud family (and with their friends, the royal families of Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, and Oman). Russia is allied with the leaders of Syria – as Russia had earlier been allied with Mossadegh in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala, Allende in Chile, Hussein in Iraq, Gaddafi in Libya, and Yanukovych in Ukraine (all of whom except Syria’s Ba’ath Party, the US has successfully overthrown).

And remember that Obama said that the reason he needed to remove Assad was because he used sarin gas on his people. Except that it wasn't Assad that gassed the Syrian people, it was the US backed Moderate Rebels that used the gas which they got from the CIA along with other weapons that belonged to Gaddafi which the CIA and the state department were running out of the embassy in Benghazi.
The sarin gas attack killed over One thousand people
Wrap your mind around that. Our government sacrificed over one thousand innocent civilians in Syria intentionally. And of course the American people believe that it was Assad that did that and now are behind the military removing Assad.
And to remove Assad, our government is working with the same terrorist group of Al Quada that they fought against during the Iraq war. And our troops are fighting alongside them.
If you had been in the military during the Iraq war and saw your fellow troops killed or injured be this terrorist group, how does one wrap their minds around fighting alongside them now?
Also remember that the US created that organization in the first place because the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
Then they along with our allie Saudi Arabia attacked this country on 9/11, but our government covered this information up for over 15 years. (You are either for us or against us unless you are friends with them like the Bush family is.
The same government propaganda is being used after the picture of the young boy in the ambulance was published and the attack is being blamed on Russia and Putin so that when either Obama or Hillary attacks Russia, the American people will be okay with it. Never mind that the war with Russia has been in the works for over a year.
Can they even be called wars if congress doesn't declare them wars?
Not according to the war powers act that states that only congress can declare wars. But Obama is using the 2003 AUMF which states that the president can use the military to fight Al Quada. Never mind that he isn't fighting Al Quada but ISIL which was created by the US, Saudi Arabia, the UK and our other allies after the AUMF was voted on.
Maybe I should have made this an essay instead of a comment, but I'm am so disgusted with our government having no problem with ordering the deaths and f millions of innocent civilians just so that the corporations can steal other country's resources without any regard for the millions of people that will die.
And the other reason why these leaders need to be removed and countries need to be destroyed is so that Israel will be the only superpower in the Middle East.

I have never understood how a country "built on Democracy," dedicated to government "by the people," can somehow find itself forcing our version of"democracy" on other nations. It runs counter to our stated beliefs. I teach elementary school. This is a discussion we have often, and the students (3rd grade, on up) are quick to point out the why of of it. They will tell you it's all about greed. Greed for power, greed for $, capital G Greed.

They will also ask we why people are so greedy, and I have no explanation. I cannot understand this thirst for more and more, when we already have so much more than most of the world. It is difficult to leave them with no good answers, but only, " It is not right, but it is what is. There is no good reason, and we must stand up and say that it isn't right, again and again and again."

and you are probably right most wont give it a second thought, but the way I look at it is even if I only get one person to understand, it keeps the thought alive. One thing I have learned from raising my kids is that I always thought they didn't hear or listen to much of what I said but now that they are adults I see they were listening and they heard most of it.

I don't accept moral arguments for more violence as the violence never started for moral reasons. The Syrian war was never about reform, democracy, etc. It was about removing or impeding an Iranian/Syrian block against Israel. Want to save the kids--well more bombing will not solve that.