Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria

Borachio said:
Well, he's guilty of something (or the US surely thinks so).

How about cruel and inhumane treatment of Syrian citizens?
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What will the US Govt be indicted for? Surely it does cruel and inhumane things.

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So... there is a new diplomatic push by the Russians and accepted (in principle) by the Syrians to turn over the chemical weapon stockpiles.
 
VRWCAgent said:
Considering we have a law on the books that actually says we can invade to get American personnel out of that court, I don't think we'll be taking advantage of that venue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague_Invasion_Act
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:lol:

Really? I didn't know that.

So one more thing for the US to hang its head in shame about? (Not that I think that's likely to happen, though). It's a good thing their self-esteem started out at such a high point.

Honestly, how does the US so consistently present itself as occupying the moral high ground? It must take a strange kind of double-think that I thought peculiar to religious fundamentalists. Ah...hang on...
 
Kyriakos said:
:D

It's always party time with the communist party :)
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Btw, the Syrian opposition does not include the communists. They are tactically siding with Assad.

Not the case in Iraq - Saddam brutally persecuted the communists.

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DemonicAppleGuY said:
Probably why we gave him a free pass to persecute a few others.
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Exactly -- but more than a few. Saddam was a CIA "client" and they used him against the USSR and Iran. Gulf War 1 was partly about getting forces in striking range of USSR should glaucoma glasnost not work and US had to project force.

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ReindeerThistle said:
Exactly -- but more than a few. Saddam was a CIA "client" and they used him against the USSR and Iran. Gulf War 1 was partly about getting forces in striking range of USSR should glaucoma glasnost not work and US had to project force.
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You're stating the obvious here man.
 
Well, it's history. But knowing that it repeats itself, I can't understand why some people, for or against, don't see this as a US power play.

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Well.

If we looking at it purely in terms of geopolitics, why didn't they do something about Lebanon? Years ago. I'd have said that would be a far easier target than Syria, and would have given them an easier time with Syria later, too.
 
ReindeerThistle said:
Well, it's history. But knowing that it repeats itself, I can't understand why some people, for or against, don't see this as a US power play.
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Because few people care about history and even fewer care about world politics.

In any case, what would be wrong with a US power play? (Considering the US is doing nothing currently, I would not say it is one now. Even if the US did something I'm not sure I'd consider it a power play and what Obama wants to be is mainly symbolic rather than functional).
 
And here I thought it was Team America World Police.

I guess we can just ignore all the comments from prominent far-right Christian military leaders that this is a "holy war". Because nothing could be further from the truth.
 
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