Posted on 09/02/2013 8:54:51 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
There is outrage among the chattering class over Assad’s use of toxic chemicals, and a supine public is sullenly acquiescing. The United States is about to start its 3rd war in the area. One cannot easily discern coherence as to our interests/policy in Syria from the “wizards” currently pretending to be in charge in DC, a familiar state of affairs, unfortunately.
Syria is a mess and one imagines history will show that this administration contributed to it through vacillation and late starting “covert” weapons supply. The Assad father/son tag team is truly evil and guilty of most of the allegations lodged against it. The United States is about to start another war, ostensibly due to the deaths of one to two thousand from a toxic gas. We would do well to remember that the first hundred thousand...
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We need to stay out of it. Why is it more terrible to die in a gas attack than it is to die in an artillery strike, or bomb strike, or just a lucky bullet. We weren’t willing to intervene in any other case. Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons and the world shrugged.
Also, were any chemical weapos actually used? Do we have any actual idea who used them? Neither has been answered satisfactorily.
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