250 Syrian kids killed by Syria's own government

I read an article about 250 kids in Syria who were tortured, sexually abused, and then killed.  The people in charge of this is Syria’s own government officials!  This is so wrong.  The reason the kids were killed was because they said the kids could be a future threat, “grow into a demonstrator”.   First off, killing anyone is wrong. Second, killing kids just makes it worse because they are innocent.  Third, they didn’t even kill them for a good reason.  They killed them thinking they could be a future threat.  How would they ever know if the kids were going got be a threat!?  They had no actual grounds to even think that.

Should America step in?  This is a difficult question, because, as you can obviously see, I am completely against having anyone be killed, specially for such ridiculous reasons, and them being children.  At the same time, is it are place to step in and tell another country, who is not even interfering with us, what to do and how to run their government?  But it does effect us even though we are not a part of their country.  Realistically America isn’t going to do anything about it, we’ll sit back and let “small” stuff like this slide on by.  I don’t know what we could do about it.  The people of Syria are already trying to get ride of President Bashar al Assad, so us stepping into Syria and trying to get rid of him too probably wouldn’t help.  They have their own rules.  Im not sure what role we play in this and what we could do if we did step in.  It makes me upset that this would happen to kids, really upset, but also I know that this is happening everywhere, just not to such extremes, and we can’t help everyone that this is happening to.  But sense this is an extreme case, and shows bad conduct on their country, I think we should do something about it.  What we would do, I don’t exactly know.  There is, to a certain extent, a line that we shouldn’t cross when getting to involved in areas and problems that are not our own.  Is it our place to step in?  Im not sure.  I would want to help them, I would like to know what we could realistically do about it because its important and this type of stuff shouldn't be happening.