To Intervene Or Not To Intervene ..

.. that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer, The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles .. (From Hamlet 3/1 by W Shakespeare)

Many steps have been taken by the international community to condemn the disgraceful violence committed by the regime forces, to demand an immediate ceasefire including the withdrawal of the army and especially the shabiha and in the meantime to deny Bashar al-Assads' legitimacy to rule the country any longer.

But even after the Arab League's last decision to approve widespread economical sanctions the Syrian regime appears on the surface unimpressed and speaks however from "an invitation for foreign intervention instead of a call to avoid one .."  ( http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/11/20111127143750187116.html ) .. but aren't sanctions like account freezes and travel bans en masse imposed by foreign countries (yes, Syria is Arab League; no, Arab League is not Syria) also kind of interventions? The armed or military option is ultima ratio if the situation is escalating in a form the majority (or a courageous minority) who can't tolerate it any longer. One fundamental idea has toujours to be concidered: keeping civilians out of combat operations, protecting and in the case of emergency evacuating them.

A buffer zone might be the only halfway realistic start-up now after all the slaps of ignorance the regime dished out in the last months as only answer on appeals, addresses, condemnations, protocols and in the end also resolutions. With it the borderline from non-violent to armed intervention will be also passed. The question is: are parts of the international community ready to take the responsibility for the possible consequences of repelling the opponent and gaining terrain?

Fact is the situation urges in the meantime urgent measures to stop the regime forces'  never-ending random killing and to prevent a possible humanitarian catastrophe in the cold light of the upcoming winter. That's the moment when the moral issue's putted on the table for all supporters of unarmed resistance. 'We haven't used all our effortible measures .. there must be still some .. give us time to think about it -"

Stop.

Hadn't we time enough to witness day for day despiteous atrocities in the name of an elitist minority who's writing the catalogue of crimes against humanity anew? 3.000, 4.000, in the worst case more then 10.000 have lost their lives during the more than eight months continuing slowmotion genocide.

When is a heap a heap? Are 3 a heap? Or 9? Maybe 18? 20? In the case of Syria meanwhile 30 or 45?  The Assad regime uses this paradox cold-blooded and systematically to nebulize the collective deception. What an outcry if 4.000 civilians will be killed at once, a dimension reminding on the Hama massacre of 1982 with estimated eight times more of it. On the other side the journalistic sapiency 'one victim's a tragedy, many victims are a statistic' plays a role to pendle the "ideal" daily number of martyrs.

Systematically.

It can't be coincidence that each day a certain number of killed civilians is sadly to be counted. All the children, even the newborn lying on their mothers shoulder, all the women, all the older ones are evidence that the regime ordered the randomly appearing killing, better known as:

Murdering.

The Free Syrian Army has to be supported militarically and logistically to create such a buffer zone. They are no 'rag tag rebels' (what the Libyan Freedom Fighters also wasn't, au contraire ..), all of them had until the moment of their defection an effective military instruction (the Syrian regime's praising the professionality of its' army not often enough). Them must be given the chance to oppose against the regime forces if it has to be with armed support.

And suddenly an argument becomes visible at least to tolerate a military measure to prevent further crimes against humanity ..

In Syria.

This is not the Star Trek world where intervention in foreign systems is stricktly forbidden. This is planet Earth, and we are one unique system called humans.