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Should we bomb Syria? (There are good arguments on both sides)
American Thinker ^ | 04/13/2018 | J. Marsolo

Posted on 04/13/2018 7:34:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Media and Mueller are obsessed with trivial issues such as did Michael Cohen use a home equity loan to give Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about a possible one night stand 12 years ago with Donald Trump, and whether this is an unlawful campaign contribution by Cohen. It is not a campaign contribution, but the facts do not matter to the Media/Mueller. Moreover, what does this have to with “Russian collusion” to affect the 2016 election?

In the real world, President Trump has to decide whether to bomb Syria to punish it because Assad used chemical weapons to kill Syrians. As we all know this is a complicated civil war in Syria with Assad, aided by Iran and Russia, fighting the rebels.

For the sake of argument, let us assume that Assad ordered the use of chemical weapons to kill. Why should we then bomb Syria?

The arguments to bomb Syria is that the United States as the leader of the free world cannot allow Assad to use chemical weapons. This is essentially a moral argument, especially today, the day of Holocaust remembrance. Hitler used chemical and other weapons to kill six million Jews, millions of Gypsies, homosexuals, Catholic and Protestant clergy, and others in the concentration camps.

If we were not at war with Nazi Germany while this was happening, we should have, according to the moral argument, bombed Germany to stop the killings. It should not matter that Hitler killed millions but Assad killed far less.

The argument against bombing Syria is a practical one. The bombing will not kill Assad or his generals but will kill Syrians unlucky to be at the military sites we bomb.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: poisongas; syria
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To: SeekAndFind
I would answer with a qualified yes. Allowing Assad to get away with this would be rightly perceived as no different from Obamas infamous red line. We are already in Syria and despite our desire to get out now, it is unlikely that we will be able to any time soon. This time, our response should be devastating enough to dismantle as much of the chemical weapons infrastructure as possible. Because of the previous administrations inability to take decisive action when necessary, failure to act will portray the US as a “Paper Tiger” and will have more devastating long term consequences.
21 posted on 04/13/2018 8:05:23 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: Delta 21

For the record....

In your exuberance you listed several friends and allies as enemies.


22 posted on 04/13/2018 8:05:51 AM PDT by bert (RE)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who made the Chlorine gas? SAA, al Qods, AQ, or some guy with a chemistry set? As a kid in the 50s making Chlorine gas was fun ... if I could do it 65 years ago why not someone else, anyone else?


23 posted on 04/13/2018 8:07:20 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: SeekAndFind

The rationale for the U.S. to get involved in the Syrian conflict over “chemical weapon attacks” is much less credible than the rationale for every U.S. city with a Planned Parenthood clinic to be bombed to a pile of radioactive rubble.


24 posted on 04/13/2018 8:08:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Why not just round up all the Syrian refugees in Europe and ship them back instead?

Frankly I’m sick and tired of hearing about that shithole country and could care less. It means nothing to me, nothing.


25 posted on 04/13/2018 8:08:37 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: bert

Saudi Arabia has never been our friend, they financed 9/11.
Afghanistan and Iran are not our allies.


26 posted on 04/13/2018 8:09:57 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Fake post


27 posted on 04/13/2018 8:10:27 AM PDT by bert (RE)
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To: SeekAndFind
... the United States as the leader of the free world cannot allow Assad to use chemical weapons.

That's a really good argument , because the children that died there were in much more pain and are much more dead than the rotten foreign terrorists that were afforded Geneva Conventions protection here:


28 posted on 04/13/2018 8:11:27 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: bert

Are you going to post proof that Assad is a war criminal?


29 posted on 04/13/2018 8:11:52 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only way I would be for an attack on Syria is if the Intelligence was 100 percent true.

Right now I have heard conflicting reports that one of the Anti-Assad forces launched the gas attack which is plauseable.

I trust nothing coming out of that area..They will kill innocents at the drop of a dime.As long as they get the result they want.


30 posted on 04/13/2018 8:12:22 AM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Exclusive– Sarah Palin on Syria: Why Should We ‘Sacrifice Even One of Our Sons or Daughters?’

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3646912/posts


31 posted on 04/13/2018 8:12:29 AM PDT by McGruff (We are watching a coup attempt. In our own country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Israeli officials: U.S. must strike in Syria

“Assad is the angel of death, and the world would be better without him.”

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-officals-US-must-strike-in-Syria-549144


32 posted on 04/13/2018 8:14:37 AM PDT by McGruff (We are watching a coup attempt. In our own country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Absolutely NO


33 posted on 04/13/2018 8:14:39 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Explain to me what has changed?

34 posted on 04/13/2018 8:17:32 AM PDT by McGruff (We are watching a coup attempt. In our own country.)
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To: bert

Yumpin Yemminey, I meant Yemen instead of Jordan.


35 posted on 04/13/2018 8:20:40 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Delta 21; bert

I stand by all the rest.


36 posted on 04/13/2018 8:26:06 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Delta 21

I think obozo and the hilterbeast made the gas. bomb them both.


37 posted on 04/13/2018 8:28:11 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: McGruff

> Explain to me what has changed? <

The Trump tweets you posted made sense. They cautioned against reckless behavior. But now Trump is now president. And every president hears this siren song: “To be a great president, you must be a war president.”


38 posted on 04/13/2018 8:29:26 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

If Trump wants to be a “War President”, he can start by invading Mexico and cleaning up that shithole.


39 posted on 04/13/2018 8:30:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: oldasrocks

Tell me with a straight face that Barry Soetoro is not pulling anti American strings, world wide, right now!


40 posted on 04/13/2018 8:31:29 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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