Oh, when will they value the lives of others?

Human life seems to have lost its value, outside the United States, of course.

Men in the thousands are killing one another faster and more efficiently in mid-air, on open squares, inside vehicles, behind ruined walls, from windows, during prayers and at burial grounds, and the victims are often women and children.

Those still dreaming of surviving, now at least 2 million from one country alone, huddle in rows of refugee tents in lands neighboring their country, with children uncertain of even their childhood. The remaining have little time to tend to the dead, except perhaps for wrapping some gassed bodies in white shrouds and lining up the motionless and voiceless for a purpose beyond the video display across the world.

Nearby under clear skies, on blue waters warships inch closer, with jet fighters ready to rain death from above.

Media pundits, with their self-proclaimed allegiance to protecting human rights, have been bombarding viewers for weeks with if and when and how the only military deployed across the globe will deal a fatal blow to a part of the world called Syria. Military strategists are counting the targets: the Syrian Republican Guards and troops in towns such as Homs should be wiped out, Damascus International Airport and Dumayr Air Base should be bombed to cut the officials' escape route. And the attack models in Kosovo, Iraq and Libya have been eulogized.

But the starkest game involves how to destroy and slaughter with state-of-the-art weapons and gadgets. Perish is the only way the targeted people can escape the wrath of the "almighty". Collateral damage, as the US loves to say, cannot be ruled out, as usual.

Such warmongering almost irritated the intended audience when the commander of the only superpower's armed forces decisively declared - ironically to the dismay of those who take him as their savior: The US' winner of Nobel Peace Prize will order a fatal strike on Syrian government targets, when US Congress, not the UN Security Council, okays it.

The fact that the targeted Syrians have never killed or injured an American or French national is not significant. What matters is that the top leaders of the world's most formidable forces say that some of those Syrians or some of their supporters gassed the videoed dead, and by doing so they crossed the "red line" set by the world's most powerful man. Crossing the "red line" also poses a threat to US friends in the region, he said.