I realize this is unpopular, and yet I can't imagine a circumstance where the US has any right, duty or excuse to intervene in a Syrian civil war. It does not threaten our security.

If one tries the "moral high road" excuse, the US lost the moral high road some time ago, in fact chose the moral low road. The US even repudiated the Geneva Conventions, the baseline of morality to which most nations subscribe.

There are other civil wars in Africa, many of which have casualty rates approaching the Holocaust. If ever morality called for intervention, it's there, and yet those are ignored. So let's cut the morality crap.

The US has enough troubles without getting it's best and brightest killed for absolutely no good reason. No matter what happens in Syria, our shores will not be stormed by Syrian troops, there will be no crop dusters launched from merchant vessels spraying our shores with anthrax, there will by no Syrian mushroom cloud over Manhattan, our schools with still teach English, and the people who most advocate for intervening will be bitching about the taxes it takes to pay for it.

We have been prepped for war for a couple of years now, horror story after horror story coming out of Syria. And yet, inevitably, when one inserts troops of any nationality into the picture, more horrors occur. Let's not forget the felons inducted into the US military, armed and turned loose upon a civilian population.

Nope, the US should learn to mind the business of it's civilian population, not international corporations.