Syria would not be a war zone if we hadn&#x27;t used much more &quot;effective&quot; measurements in Iraq before. I do not know what to say to people, who at this point still think, that our military  can somehow bring peace to the middle-east after decades of war, thinking &quot;this time is different&quot;.<p>Why don&#x27;t we invade Saudi Arabia, who practices a cruel form of Islam with death-sentences and so on, too? Why don&#x27;t we abolish them in China or the US? Why don&#x27;t we focus on Africa or - as a European - Eastern Europe? I am not saying, that ISIS is not bad, I just find the obsession with the Middle East strange, if it is really about their actions that are so horrible, let&#x27;s stop doing them ourselves first. If you really want to make the world a better place, that should be a much easier goal to achieve.