"What will the world say?"

I read recently in the newspaper that President Obama gave a reason for our intervention in Syria over their use of Sarin gas on their own people.  Part of it was, "what will the world say if the United States did nothing about this criminal act"?  I wondered about the following.

What will the world say about our "first-day" infant mortality rate being the highest in the industrial world.

What will the world say about a society where children get gunned down in their classrooms by a mad-man with military grade weapons and does nothing in response?

What will the world say about a society that allows its inner cities to rot while many of its residents live in poverty?

What will the world say about a society where there are more people in prison than anywhere else on earth.

What will the world say about a society that still allows the death penalty while the vast majority of the industrial world has banned it?  And has used that punishment on teenagers and the mentally ill?.

There are a host of issues that we should worry about "what will the world say" concerning conditions in this country.