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I disagree. I believe we should have used missile strikes early and often to disrupt government artillery strikes. We don't have to walk the ground to level the playing field. Missile strikes and no fly zones WERE effective in containing Sadaam Hussein in the late 90s. Sitting on the sideline watching anybody be massacred is not the moral high ground.
It is time for the United States to get out of the :nation making", "nation building, "making nations behave themselves" business. Thousands of dead soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan and NOW we are going to enter another war? This is starting to be absolutely crazy. Let the Arabs fix the problem
I firmly beleave Obama and his illegal appointees should all be removed from office before it is too late.
Agreed! We should step aside. Clean up our own backyard & stay out of theirs.
Our foreign policy is an utter disaster and I fear the Democrats will try to do something, it'll be the wrong thing, to make Obama look like he's the man in charge, willing to do what is right. But at the end of the day, our window to help shut about a year ago and once Obama drew the imaginary line in the sand, he backed himself, again, into a corner. We should be allying with Israel, we should have done this 5 years ago, insuring that our allies are safe and know we will help them no questions asked, but, again, we didn't and another mistake is to try and make Obama the Commander in Chief he isn't.
This could be the same kind of ruse for which Al-Quida and Hezabollah are famous for... Lets not start attacking another country until we have all the facts... What leader is stupid enough to use chemical weapons several days after he is warned not to.... just a wee bit to convenient....
Obama seems to feel like the United Nations is superior to our constitution. It is not and we should follow our own directive and not those put together by some friends and our enemies. THINK ABOUT IT?
Ally with Israel, that is our only hope. God will take care of us if we do. Read the Bible (KJV 1611 VERSION)
Congratulations Scott. Thank you for taking the moral high ground.
It is interesting that there is no concern over the hundred thousand lives already lost in Syria. How many more lives will be taken by the weapons of mass destruction that remain. Perhaps we should see the suffering and death of those our children that have died.
It is sad that most comments above support the selfish concerns of unaffected individuals . The American Spirit is truly a thing of the past.
Does anyone really trust our government when the Secretary of State says "we know for a fact that Assad's forces used chemical weapons? This administration has a credibility gap due its past lying
It's terrible what is happening there...and an absolute human rights catastrophe... yet it is primarily a civil war... it is not our place to pick winners and losers for other countries??? All we can rightly do is express our support for those we believe in ...and work to protect our interests in the region...
and another thought..what being done on the humanitarian front???
As with Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought us into WWII, the Syrian army and other Arab factions are looking to draw US into a war in Syria (neighbor to Iran); and with Egypt's near-civil war brewing, we would be foolish to be duped into yet another world war.
Well well well, it seems that a HUGE majority of the American People want the US to stay the hell OUT of other countries and let them fight their OWN wars. HOORAH!!! Here are protests against missile strikes or yet ANOTHER ' NATION MAKING " move on another country !!! Enough of OUR boys have died or been maimed for life, MOST of them if you tally in the mental problems these wars have cost. Let them fight to the death if they want , and be STANDING BUY to make sure they do not try to make it OUR death, or let them settle their own differences.
We need to stay out of conflicts in countries where the main fight is CIVIL WAR....
jay w..."Ditto" our transparent Presidential Administration has all too many credibility issues to-date. Furthermore, our intervention would fail to possess any achievements, except one, the Syrians (all of them)would hate the U.S. even more. We would most likely kill & injure many innocent people (those we hope to help) and piss off the ones that view we took the wrong side. Our intervention is a no win solution....period! Let us learn from Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan....stay the hell out of "Nation Building". As a result, no "No Fly zones", cruise-missile and/or drone strikes. Let them work it out between themselves!!!!
The U.S. government should protect the U.S.
In what way is Assad a threat to the U.S.?
In what way will intervention help the U.S. economy improve?
How will intervention reduce unemployment in the U.S.?
U.S. intervention will only distract from the refusal of most Americans to buy-in to ACA and allow the present administration to continue its effort to ignore the Constitution and dictate the future.
Although I agree with Steve Groves regarding the R2P Doctrine, we (USA) must be prepared to deal with leaders of other countries who use chemical weapons to kill their own people. We should act immediatly with our allies in the world and with our best effort to first investigate and then respond.I'm sure we have the best intellegence on the ground or we should have. And if it's true and they have used chemical weapons then we should take immediate action to remove that leader. We do not want any more Adolf Hitlers. But we should act within the framework of the US Constitution. This is urgent!
American Spirit a thing of the past? In many Americans it is dead! Our country is in serious need of leadership and moral teaching here at home! Sure I feel horrible about people slaughtering there own over there, yes it effects me! But don't we do the same in different ways? When children have absolutely no moral conscious, respect or 'American Spirit' at a level where they believe it's ok to beat a man to death because they're bored.... I believe it's long past time to refocus on our own. WWll veteran Delbert Belton, a senior citizen, a man of honor, a man who fought bravely and made sacrifices for his country, fought for the freedom of future generations only to have his life brutally taken by the youth of this generation effects me! That effects me deeply and I never met the man. How's that for moral high ground? I'm all for helping others but something is seriously wrong here. Let's get our own house in order before running out to help everyone else..... Again! This country always seems to be the leader in helping other countries both financially & in sacrificing the lives of our young people as we sink further into debt and grief. where has this gotten us? Our first order of business should be to elect a real Commander in Chief! The current one is clueless about the people in his own back yard. Disgusted by the in-humane treatment of human to human on this planet but we can't save the world if we can't save our own family...
Why is the Government and the Press SILENT with respect to what Russia may or may not do. Has our State Department contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry? Complete silence on this subject in the press/
America is the root of all terror. America has invaded sixty countries since world war 2.
In 1953 America overthrow Iran's democratic government Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed a brutal dictator Shah. America helped Shah of Iran to establish secret police and killed thousands of Iranian people.
During Iran-Iraq war evil America supported Suddam Hossain and killed millions of Iranian people. In 1989, America, is the only country ever, shot down Iran's civilian air plane, killing 290 people.
In 2003,America invaded Iraq and killed 1,000,000+ innocent Iraqi people and 4,000,000+ Iraqi people were displaced.
Now America is a failed state with huge debt. Its debt will be 22 trillion by 2015.
I think the Heritage author left out at least a sixth point. Russia has had a vested interest in Syria for decades. There are thousands of Russian citizens living in Syria now and there are Russian ships docked at a port there.
Vladimir Putin is an old Cold Warrior who never abandoned his 'apparatchik' KGB mentality. If Obama, Kerry, the Senate, Congress all agree on a military strike or if Israel over-reacts to Syria, that could reactivate the Kremlin's old anti-West paranoid mentality, something that could lead to a nuclear war, not just a regional one.
If that happens, that would be far worse than a chemical gas attack against Syrian civilians. Frankly I think most government "leaders" in America and in the world today at large are just a bunch of irrational, power mad freaks. Who says America must be the world's international cop? Reagan once said: "Governments start wars, not people." He was right.
Beam me up Scotty....
#6 There is no proof that Assad used chemical weapons. who would benefit from it's use? Muslims who are looking to the U.S. to knock out Assad so they can take over.
Assad would be foolish to use weapons like that, especially as it is not his last resort.. This is a set up by Muslims and Obama. Don't fall for it.
Top 5 Reasons Not To Use Missile Strikes In Syria...
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By James Carafano Ph.D.~ Massed Protests In Syria There are press reports that the White House is considering missile strikes on the Assad regime in Syria to punish it for the use of chemical weapons. That is a bad idea for five reasons. 1. The Respons...
No airstrikes or military action of any kind without proper congressional approval. Bush got approval, so should Obama. This is not an immenent threat to the US.
Haven't we learned our lesson? Muslims don't want peace. Islam is a religion of war and dominance at any cost.
You want to interven somewhere for humand dignity, lets start with North Korea. It is a black eye on humanity and all civilized nations that we sit back and do nothing to help those folks.
