Wow! The new slur against the anti-war faction on DU is "peace purists"

[Jackpine Radical]

66. I. Do. Not. Fucking. Believe. It.

"Peace purist."

Well, I guess that's me.

I tend to oppose wars where a) our national survival isn't at stake, and b) where nobody even knows what a "win" would look like. So now we're gonna blow the shit out of some innocent people in the Middle East because someone "gassed their own people?"

If Assad (assuming it was Assad) had used napalm instead of Sarin, would that have been better? It would at least have been on a moral par with what we did in Vietnam.
Syria won't "tit for tat" with strikes against Israel? What's Iran going to do? Sit idly by while their mutual-defense pact partners get blown up? They do have the capacity to do a lot of damage, not just to Israel, but to our Navy, and they may be crazy enough at the top to imagine that Allah will come to their aid.

If Iran retaliates with conventional weapons, will we nuke them? Are they willing to gamble on that? I'm afraid that the Neocon/Israeli "deep plan," which long antedates Obama's Presidency, involves nuking Teheran. That would pretty much leave Israel as King of the Hill in the Middle East--a position they have long coveted, I think.

But then I'm a "peace purist."