Why intervention in Syria will leave chaos  By Ed Husain Special
for CNN Published  6:23 AM EDT Aug 28, 2013 (CNN) -  Syria's
civil war is not America's problem. Syria is surrounded by
Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab nations with large
standing armies and advanced military equipment. Their cowardice
in acting to stop a war on their doorstep should give us pause
for thought. Why will they not act, but we must?  Why is
American gullibility for war so strong that countries such as
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel can dispense of their moral
duties to the American taxpayer?  Make no mistake about it: al
Assad is a war criminal, having had his own civilians and
soldiers slaughtered in a war to keep his family in power.  The
sectarian, ethnic, and religious dimensions of the war have kept
the Obama administration (rightly in my view) away from direct
military involvement in the conflict.  But what has changed now?
The use of chemical weapons to kill people jolts us into
probable action, but millions d