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

[Jackpine Radical]

72. Here's a slight re-write of that post--

Obama and team have been circumspect about sticking our dicks into a meat grinder. But when the guy has just gassed thousands of his own people, he has got to go. Had he only used an approved weapon like napalm….

People who are not in positions of governance and power can enjoy the luxury of always declining the chance to kill lots of people for no good reason. Leaders of powerful nations do not have that luxury. They have to recognize that the enemy of our enemy is our friend, even when he is our enemy and engaged in trying to kill us elsewhere.

This is a horrible situation in Syria, and Assad has demonstrated amply why other countries should act to stop the slow bleed of this war where literally any action against civilians is on the table for that dictator. Assad lacks the decency to limit himself to humane methods of warfare, like double-tapping targets with drones in order to take out the emergency medical responders.

It's funny to imagine what you peace purists would have said when the U.S. Was about to go to war with Germany and the concentration camps were gassing millions of Jews--even though we were blind to the Holocaust, were busy turning away Jews seeking asylum here, and went to war for totally different reasons.