I liked Obama during 2008 and 2012 elections because of his claims that he would end the Iraqi war. He was my hero for promoting world peace. But then, everything went downhill when he wanted to intervene in the Syrian conflict. He, in my opinion, is simply being a hypocrite for wanting to end one war in the Middle East to intervene in another one.

I get that the situation is bad in Syria. The Syrian civil war has a death toll of 100,000 and many of its citizens are now refugees. But is it even our place to intervene?! As a Syrian and American citizen, I don’t believe that the United States, or any other country for that matter, has the right to intervene in such conflict.

Intervening in the Middle East simply means more money being spent. I definitely don’t want my tax money to support my homeland’s destruction and the deaths of my graduate friends who recruited in the American army. Plus, have we forgotten about our increasing rate of unemployment? Our increasing debt? What about those college students that want to go to college but can’t afford it?  Instead of wasting our money on a conflict we have no business entering, why can’t we solve our problems first?

Don’t get me wrong, I would have supported the American decision of intervening in the Syrian conflict in a heartbeat if I actually saw a point to this whole thing or a relation to the United States in any way … I mean, what does the United States even have to do with Syria’s conflict? Obama claims that America wants to stop the Syrian president, Bashar Assad, from using chemical weapons against his own people. There is evidence of chemical weapons being used, but there is no evidence that Assad is actually guilty of using them. For all that we know, the rebels could have fired the chemical weapons, and we are targeting the wrong person.

We saw what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq when the U.S. decided to intervene. We saw what that led to. Why does history need to repeat itself?