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In reply to the discussion: Kick and Goddamned R if you don't want to Attack Syria! [View all]Tarheel_Dem
(31,293 posts)those? Many reasonable people have said that all the president's options are bad ones, and I empathize with that position. Hillary would have made her decision much sooner, as we know, and from a report I heard on NPR this morning, John Kerry has pretty much taken the position of Hillary. If we don't honor alliances, then we open ourselves up to many more attacks in this country because their intelligence agencies won't be willing to share with us.
We can't forever limit our willingness to help based on a screw-up by the last president, and if we do that, we should just tear up all our treaties, close our borders, and retreat from the world. This president doesn't want war, he's as war weary as the rest of us, but the thought of loose nukes falling into the hands of some radical element makes the whole world hostage to them.
Seventy to eighty thousand people have died so far, and either way you slice it, we've made enemies there because of our perceived inaction. And if we do intervene, we'll still be "the enemy". Other than sitting on the sidelines, what are our options? I want to hear from the Progressive Caucus, especially those on the Foreign Relations Committee.
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