Tools of War

Please close your eyes and imagine:

     You are driving down the highway with your family and come to a toll booth.  The man attending the booth asks not for your money but for your daughter to be left with them.  You say no and then he pulls out a gun and threatens the rest of your family with death if you do not leave your little girl with this man.  What choice do you have?  Leave your daughter to be molested and raped by this man or have your entire family killed.  
     This situation is all too familiar to people in Syria.  Rape is becoming an epidemic throughout the country.  Most of the rape is being committed by officials of their own government.  How can you get help if the ones you would get help from are the ones committing these vicious rapes.
     Rape in America is dealt with, when caught, by time in jail and a permanent record.  In these various types of countries the women who are the victims of these crimes become shamed and targeted.  So victims they are not.  They are shameless whores who deserve death.  This is how their country views them after they are sexually violated.  With the increasing amount of rape, men and children are becoming victims of penetration, groping, sodomy, and other disgusting acts against them sexually.  
     It is sad to see and hear reports that President Bashar al-Assad and his military are using rape as an act of war and terror. I can't imagine living in a country that condones such an act especially under the hands of the President of that country.  

(Is it me or does this guy resemble Adolf Hitler?) 

 *Whatever the resembelence or not he reminds me of the malisious acts against citizens of the country in regards to Hitler and the Jews. *
I googled Assad's name and found so many videos of children, women, and men being tortured and also very graphic and extrememly disturbing videos of children who had been raped, mutilated, and killed.  
     What a disgusting world we live in and so sad that there are countries like Syria and a President of such countries that allow these horrible acts to transpire.   I am truly lucky to be born and live in a country where we have a checks and balances on our political and judicial system to where something like this can and will never be possible.  I wish there was more we could do for the victims of these malicious crimes and their families.