Posted on 02/22/2012 6:28:04 AM PST by nuconvert
You seem to have missed the point, as you have been all thread.
People are going to be killed or brutalized there no matter who is in power. It’s just ugly, no one likes it, but many parts of the world are ugly. We are not going to go in and rebuild their society from the ground up similar to what we did in Germany and Japan post-WWII. If we aren’t going to crush them and remake their world from the ground up, we need to stay out.
I am not much of pray-er, but the Serenity Prayer applies here:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.
What makes you think we can change things there? Our wonderful success at “nation building” in Afghanistan after 10 years? Something else?
Again, you really haven’t made an argument here other than “it is terrible, we should DO SOMETHING!”
No, we should not, absent a really good reason, which so far is absent.
No, you have missed the point.
““it is terrible, we should DO SOMETHING!””
“No, we should not, absent a really good reason, which so far is absent.”
The really good reason is, we are AMERICANS. We shouldn’t just stand by and watch a dictator kill & brutalize his people. The rest of the world sits and watches. America is the greatest country in the world. We try to help - that’s who we are.
When the result on the back side is that the new regime will also brutalize the people, what is the point?
See: Libya, Egypt, Tunisia for examples.
“Why does it matter if it’s “sustained” or not?”
Because it speaks to the point that reporters may be mischaracterizing what is going on like they often mischaracterize what is happening. Haven’t you been reading the thread posts?
The fact that you care for the innocent is commendable. However, I could rattle off any number of conflicts in the world where innocent civilians are being slaughtered. Nobody seems to care too much about them.
The take home point is that this conflict is not the Untied States’ business. Like I mentioned before, if you feel so strongly, you are free to join the Free Syrian resistance or donate $$ to salve your bleeding heart. Leave me and my kids out of it.
Also, off Algezeera, several reports of heavy fighting in Homs. Several of Assad's tanks burning. Much small arms fire.
Who the heck is asking you & your kids to get involved?
“Sarkozy is now calling it an “assassination.”
Good. Cuz that’s what it sounds like it was.
Thanks for the updates
“Who the heck is asking you & your kids to get involved?”
It sounds to me like you are either a young kid or being intentionally obtuse (I vote the latter).
“Exterminating” heads of state, as you called for, doesn’t just happen magically. It involves (American) military personel risking their lives. My kids are serving.
How about you? What are you doing to serve? Are you just a bunch of talk about how ‘we have to do something’ or do you lead by example?
For the 3rd time, the Free Syrian Resistance is taking volunteers. If you feel so strongly you should show some leadership and join.
“Exterminating” heads of state, as you called for, doesn’t just happen magically. It involves (American) military personel risking their lives.”
No, it doesn’t.
I have family who’ve served and a wonderful young man who would have been a nephew who was killed in Afghanistan, thanx for asking.
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