tim722
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I long for the good old days where the CIA could just kill Assad and nobody would know the difference.
Should the US bomb Syria?
Absolutely NOT!!! Stop being the policemen of the world and focus on taking care of our own citizens (which they have hard enough time doing)
There are some rather severe national security concerns at stake here -- not the least of which is Syria's alliance with Russia and China, and the potential for this situation to ignite the entire Middle East. (Egypt, for example, which is another tinderbox.)
An exploding Middle East, complete with tyrants who can gas their own people with impunity, benefits no one.
They got terrorist that can fly planes into your World Trade center, killing thousands..... That a direct threat enough for you mr number 1?
Oh yeah, maybe because the USA has been fucking around in the Middle East meddling in their affairs since the 50's.
Don't we have enough of our own problems? Let some other country deal with this crap for a change.
isolationism
Syria did 9-11? Might want to check your history a bit.
Speaking of that, why would the terrorists have done 9-11 in the first place?
Oh yeah, maybe because the USA has been fucking around in the Middle East meddling in their affairs since the 50's.
Or it could just be because they hate our freedom, just like Bush said.
I was generalising the area.
But I agree with your other point, that the USA has been meddling in the middle east for far too long already. It's not helping, most likely doing more worse than good. So perhaps it's time to quit already. Let their Middle eastern brothers help them out for a change.
Yeah, and with all their oil they really are far too poor to intervene.
And, of course, everyone else has.
No, wait, they haven't, because they have no responsibilities here whatsoever. But reserve the right to complain and point fingers after the fact.
I have no policy position to advocate. I genuinely don't know what to do. No one was a bigger critic in FYM than I when it came to GWB and the Iraq War. I don't see this as an analogous situation.
I can't see the enforcement of punishment for using chemical weapons against one's own people as a bad thing. It may defer future use by other countries. However, the elevation if Assad as some sort of victim of American firepower is also a bad thing.
And, of course, everyone else has.
No, wait, they haven't, because they have no responsibilities here whatsoever. But reserve the right to complain and point fingers after the fact.
I have no policy position to advocate. I genuinely don't know what to do. No one was a bigger critic in FYM than I when it came to GWB and the Iraq War. I don't see this as an analogous situation.
I can't see the enforcement of punishment for using chemical weapons against one's own people as a bad thing. It may defer future use by other countries. However, the elevation if Assad as some sort of victim of American firepower is also a bad thing.
because they have no responsibilities here whatsoever. But reserve the right to complain and point fingers after the fact.
I find it hard to determine how much support he has from his own populace. It is a small group of Alawites that dominate the Ba'athist party in Syria. By any measure he is a cruel oppressive dictator, a man who was never meant to rule, if not for his brother dying in a car crash, there is little to find redeeming about him, he might have made a good doctor at one stage, who knows. About 60% of the country is made up of Sunni's, while 12% is made up of the Alawites. I find it hard to imagine that this situation ever led there be a large body of support for Assad.