We're Cowboys

At my job I have the luxury of sitting in front of CNN for 9 hours all day. Its really a dream come true...-_- but while I sit here "working" and watching the news I get to see all the things happening around the world. Thankfully Miley Cyrus performed a risque show during the VMA's and that is all that has been on the news.But last week the news covering a lot of whats going on in Syria. So every half hour I watched the same clip of children choking on gas. Families laying dead in their house with seemingly now damage or blood. As I wait to be one of the first to hear President Obama's decision on whether we are going to bomb Syria for crossing his "red line" I wonder if before every war this is what its like. Are we all just constantly waiting to hear what someone else's decision is. We wait idly by while a group of people decide our future? It's a strange feeling. I have to just sit here and watch the clips reply watch the news reporters say the same thing. U.S. is ready to attack if the order is given. So we all are waiting. Even Syria is waiting. They say they will retaliate if attacked. Britain's Prime Minister seems ready to go to war. He said we CAN'T sit idly by while innocent people are killed.
In 2011 I was too young to remember the process. I remember my teachers showing us a clip of an airplane crashing into a building. Then suddenly we were declaring war and we've been there ever since. I feel like this is what people did in the 50's and 60's they sat in front of their TV's waiting for an answer. Today I think people are probably less engaged, the government is constantly doing things the people disagree with. The only thing I can think about is the poor soldiers. The ones that were just pulled out of the war and now they have to get ready to go back.
Its sad that those people are dying, and its very chivalrous of us to want to help and not want to watch whats going on over there. Except at what point do we say enough is enough. We cannot prove the Syrian Regime released the chemical weapons so should we really go to war? I guess that's selfish. I think we have are hands in too many cookie jars and need to hold off, but that is just my opinion.