I think any American at this point who has seen the videos of Syrian children getting gassed by Assad – any of us who has any tendency toward reflection – has been led to ask what exactly his feelings are for.  We know that every feeling has a purpose and that, like faith, they were given to us for action.  As such, we look inside ourselves and thank God we are morally alive and feel something for the children – but this leads us to another more uncomfortable question.  It leads us to wonder whether it is colder to feel something and do nothing than simply to feel nothing. We almost wish we had the latter, but this is not the case, and a video of gasping, convulsing innocents leads us to rush into war just as a picture of a drowned Syrian child makes us open up our borders to savages.  We simply do not see our fathers who will be blown to pieces fighting and our women who will be raped because we did things in the name of other people's...(Read Full Article)