Has anyone bothered to ask the Syrian people who they think did this?
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Just like in America, it very likely only depends on who (which side) you ask. It doesn’t help to ask a randomly selected Syrian who they think did it now. They’re only going to give an opinion based on their allegiances, affinities, and alignments.
As a libertarian, I also do not believe it is our job to be the arbiter of moral dispensations around the world. But we have two problems; (1) This was chemical weapons used on civilians, women & children, not stray mortar fire or guerilla action or normal ‘warfare’. (2) We’re not out of Syria (yet). Can’t just say ‘ not our problem’
We got a much more serious problem, besides the fact that our military is still in Syria, and thus possible targets of the same chemical weapons ...
My guess is either the Russians, or more likely the Iranians - with Russian assistance - are behind this.
Either way, we are going to eventually need to deal with both. We have some foolish individuals here on FR, who seriously entertain the notion that we can be on good terms with Russia; because they also believe that Russia truly is now a “democracy” ... They also believe the Cold War actually “ended,” and all those high-level communists, who ran the Soviet Union with an iron fist (KGB Colonel Putin, for example) have seen the “error” of their ways, and miraculously left Marxism in the dust.
So how many American lives are you willing to risk to punish Assad?
Can you even prove that he did this and not the Rebels?