If someone was attacking your government, murdering Syrian Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic Christians alike and selling sex slaves, gas them by all means. The rebels are terrorists just like Mujihadeen and Taliban are one and the same thing.
I’m inclined to doubt the children and babies killed and maimed were Islamic radicals. Besides, Assad’s war is not only against the Islamic radicals. It’s against non-radical groups as well. He’s an equal opportunity killer.
What kind of precedent of any significance does it set? I hate this opportunistic moralizing about the use of chemical weapons (if such an attack even occurred). Hundreds of people have already died in the conflict, including many at the hands of the US. Over 200 civilians were killed by US airstrikes during the western-backed Mosul operation, and nobody cared then. Why does the US suddenly care that immoral means are being employed by Assad, and civilians are being harmed? Clearly this isn’t about morality or fighting immoral forms of warfare. It’s just an excuse to secure US imperialist interests.
Oh good lord, man! Please, tell me all about the oil the United States plundered from Iraq. That’s a war crime.
Its not about plundering oil but keeping the petrodollar system alive. Even if the US did take oil it isn’t a war crime because the US did it and of course would have had a good justification for so doing. That’s the great thing about being on top militarily. You can just make up excuses for anything and no one can stop you.
Sure they did. That’s why we bombed it.
Yes. Trump now appears to want a US war against Syria. And if that turns out to be the case, then it means Trump is wholly dishonest, the worst type of liar. That’s not uncharitable, it’s simply a fact. I can provide dozens of direct quotes from Donald Trump before he was elected, in which he specifically says (endlessly) that war with Syria is wrong and a mistake and a waste of lives. It was one of his biggest criticisms of both Obama and Hillary, and he positioned himself as almost a pacifist. If that changes, it means he lied his way into office. The quotes are starkly black and white, and if anyone wants a good sampler list please just let me know.**Big mistake. **
Donald Trump demonstrated that he, unlike his predecessor Barack Obama - who was weakened in his position by the British Parliament and his own, perfectly understandable, multilateral instincts - is not only capable of drawing a “red line” but is prepared to punish those who cross it.
An escalation of imperialist intervention in the Middle East? Why oppose nationalism if you’re going to support pointless and destructive imperialist efforts like this?
This is not seen as an “imperialist venture” in Europe.
I am a European. I am from the UK. I don’t care about public opinion - public opinion does not determine what is true, or determine what the actual motive for this strike was. Do you think the US had a similar “principled justification” for killing those civilians in Mosul? Do you think they are equally principled in supporting the Saudis in their attempts to starve 13 million people in Yemen? In Yemen the Saudis use outlawed cluster munitions against schools and hospitals which are sold to the Saudis by British and US companies. Is that principled?
I did not think this was possible here----but yes----more anti-Zionist c—p.
Let’s be clear about what Trump is prepared to do. He is prepared to give an order to launch missiles from miles away to kill whatever happens to be at their destination. He is prepared to use taxpayer money to fund this. He may be prepared to send other people’s boys off to die in the Middle East. None of this demonstrates any measure of strength or courage. None of it is a personal sacrifice.
I agree. No more Jew-bashing, Abba (which incidentally is Hebrew for ‘Daddy’). Seek help.I did not think this was possible here----but yes----more anti-Zionist c—p.
Since the Jews “control” everything, I guess it is now clear that they engineered this to finally get rid of Assad.
I don’t condone everything that the IDF does and I am for a Palestinian homeland alongside Israel but to add Israel into everything regardless of the lack of obvious evidence that there is is just bad. Somebody has been reading the Protocols of the Elders of Zion one too many times.
Sigh.
I know you are, which is is why I raised that point. Most people over here respect the decision he took, even though we don’t care for him as a man.
No country or group of people is ever entirely principled all of the time.
The U.S. is both asserting its right to be a moral arbiter in the Middle East and projecting, as well as protecting, its own interests. That’s how a benevolent superpower operates. Realpolitik, with its machiavellian logic when required, and values.
Where should the Jews go if their state does not deserve to exist?