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Committing a small act of war is like being “just a little bit pregnant.” Has anyone done the calculus to ask what a lone Syrian agent might do to this country in retaliation? If we believe they are capable of unleashing chemical warfare on their own population, why would they have any qualms about hitting the U.S. with the same weaponry? We know that DHS has no plans to seal our borders.

Committing a small act of war is like being “just a little bit pregnant.” Has anyone done the calculus to ask what a lone Syrian agent might do to this country in retaliation? If we believe they are capable of unleashing chemical warfare on their own population, why would they have any qualms about hitting the U.S. with the same weaponry? We know that DHS has no plans to seal our borders. What makes you think this of any concern to them? Another domestic terrorist attack would justify all sorts of increases to the federal government's domestic security apparatus, just like it did last time. Do you think the country would be complaining about drones or NSA surveilance if such an attack were to happen here?

If we believe they are capable of unleashing chemical warfare on their own population, why would they have any qualms about hitting the US with the same weaponry?

You talk sense. Bombing Syria is a lose-lose situation. If it were the Syrian leadership using chemical weapons on their homelands, surely they'd be willing to use them on us. The other possibility (probability IMHO) is that it was the rebels. If we punish the Syrian gov't for using weapons they haven't used, isn't it a logical conclusion for them to use them?....let the crime fit the punishment.

Another thought: If Obama bombs Syria, what's to stop the rebels from using these weapons in the US and blaming the Syrian government? We'd already be partway down the slippery slope.

Committing a small act of war is like being “just a little bit pregnant.” Has anyone done the calculus to ask what a lone Syrian agent might do to this country in retaliation? If we believe they are capable of unleashing chemical warfare on their own population, why would they have any qualms about hitting the U.S. with the same weaponry? We know that DHS has no plans to seal our borders.

Committing an act of war with the expectation that the other party will do NOTHING is unbelievably stupid. It goes against history. It goes against human nature.

The last time a war was started mostly for reasons of posturing, national pride, and possibly in the belief that it could be won quickly was WW1, which became one of the most hellish events in human history. Most Americans are not familiar with it, but WW1 was calamitous. Casualties were counted not in hundreds or thousands, but in hundreds of thousands and millions.

Chucking a few cruise missiles into Syria to do ~~WHAT??~~ could lead to world wide horrors in western countries taking terrorist hits taking down infrastructure and economies.