1) The risk of spilling blood with airstrikes exists of course. It is not that it is a kill free solution. But it is a small probability.
2) I thought about this too. You are already in dept why be pulled deeper in it right? It turns out that in the long run war ends up being more profiatble. It will actually gain you more money in the long run.
3) This particular problem has been chosen from the media. Not all every wrong doing can be put into the media at once. One at the time. Why this particular area was put in the media compared to say atrocities committed from Budhists in Burma may be due to your political leadership and their international policies and agendas.
4) If all were to be put at once then it may be too much of a burden. One at a time.
People are being gassed but it is not really about your responsibility. You did not gas those people to death hence you should not be responsible. But things there may escalate if not intervened in time. Basically you should be looking for that long term gain for your own interests. Those may in fact have to do with intervening on Syria.
Apart from UK and UN, this may end up a joint operation that may include the rest also.
Okay, by these answers, I'm sure you don't know what you are talking about.
For one thing, here is our national debt.
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 01 Sep 2013 at 08:28:52 PM GMT is:
$ 16, 744, 329, 085, 221.40
For another thing, no war is not profitable. It is expensive in terms of both money and lives.
Airstrikes are not going to accomplish anything except killing more people. IF we happened to get lucky and get Assad, that does nothing to rule out a civil war or a worse regime taking over.
Good God, the problem is NOT the media. Do you actually think the United States gets it's intelligence from the media and they don't know what's happening around the world without the media? :lamo Holy smokes is all I can say to that!!! The media is a GOVERNMENT TOOL, not the other way around my confused friend.
What long-term interests do we have in Syria? Please tell.
You are just completely missing the point about other atrocities. There have been FAR WORSE atrocities in the past, and NOBODY intervened. Maybe it is a language barrier problem or something. :shrug:
You are right on your second to last comment. It is NOT our problem, nor is it our business. If something happens over there that WOULD directly effect us, such as threats of attacks or actual attacks on us or OUR interests, we can handle that as it happens.