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Jack_Dawson

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3. Sooo...do nothing?

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Sat Aug 31, 2013, 12:32 AM

Aug 2013

Just trying to figure our your position.

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Syria Inaction is NOT AN OPTION [View all] Jack_Dawson Aug 2013 OP

Syria and the deaths there are not our problem. geek tragedy Aug 2013 #1

Sooo...do nothing? Jack_Dawson Aug 2013 #3

Yep, do nothing. Nothing now, and nothing when Assad loses and the massacres begin. geek tragedy Aug 2013 #6

^ This. AzDar Aug 2013 #60

There's nothing we CAN do Ken Burch Aug 2013 #7

BINGO! RC Aug 2013 #63

GOP CONGRESS WILL USE THIS AS REASON TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT OBAMA trueblue2007 Aug 2013 #39

I'm glad she let go.... Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2013 #2

*snort* NuclearDem Aug 2013 #10

I always that Rose should have just stayed on that damned lifeboat. Brigid Aug 2013 #15

It absolutely is an option... HooptieWagon Aug 2013 #4

THis moral equivalency is nonsense. Adrahil Aug 2013 #45

This chemical weapons fetish is just hysteria. dairydog91 Aug 2013 #52

Inadvertent? MNBrewer Aug 2013 #55

I agree. The president must act and not LukeFL Aug 2013 #5

I am really torn. DearAbby Aug 2013 #8

If the President does NOT act.... Adrahil Aug 2013 #46

So what if Iran develops a nuclear weapon? eridani Aug 2013 #50

My main concern about a nuclear Iran Adrahil Aug 2013 #59

Not seeing how that would be worse than the current situation eridani Sep 2013 #70

That would be the same Iran that Saddam gassed with chemical weapons we knew he had Bluenorthwest Aug 2013 #58

Want a list of other tragedy's worldwide we are ignoring? Wow! n-t Logical Aug 2013 #9

You are absolutely correct! marew Aug 2013 #33

S... At what pont do we act? Adrahil Aug 2013 #47

Welcome Back to DU! RandiFan1290 Aug 2013 #51

We have these quandries all the time marew Aug 2013 #53

Ugh. NuclearDem Aug 2013 #11

Al Qaeda is a greater enemy, by far. David__77 Aug 2013 #12

Interesting little side note to your post: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Advisor HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #66

Ok, so we bomb Assad. Savannahmann Aug 2013 #13

Oh, stop injecting reason and facts into this. NuclearDem Aug 2013 #14

Sorry, it's a bad habit Savannahmann Aug 2013 #17

Begone with that analysis! We're emoting our way into a war, not thinking! dairydog91 Aug 2013 #54

We're tapped out. We no longer have any moral authority on the world stage. Brigid Aug 2013 #16

Well said... nt marew Aug 2013 #34

I think this should be Russia's responsibility. Waiting For Everyman Aug 2013 #18

But the world community... ocpagu Sep 2013 #73

No Blood for Ego! David__77 Aug 2013 #19

So, you advocate frustrated_lefty Aug 2013 #20

This one aint our job, buddy Warpy Aug 2013 #21

and then what? frylock Aug 2013 #22

smoke a cigarette cthulu2016 Aug 2013 #23

You're just hungry for the US to bomb more people. delrem Aug 2013 #24

Oh, sure, blowing shit up will solve the problem... backscatter712 Aug 2013 #25

Don't forget to send a note to DU when you hit the ground in Syria wearing your confortable boots! idwiyo Aug 2013 #26

Well said. Travis_0004 Aug 2013 #27

Mr. President, please forget our Congress ForgoTheConsequence Aug 2013 #28

YES IT IS! kiva Aug 2013 #29

Fallacious because you assume MILITARY action is the ONLY kind of action possible pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #30

What if, after a limited, narrow military strike against the Assad regime, that regime uses CW.. workinclasszero Aug 2013 #57

If it's being considered, it's an option TroglodyteScholar Aug 2013 #31

It is an option and the one that should be taken LibAsHell Aug 2013 #32

Do you think the US should be attacked for murdering hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? ronnie624 Aug 2013 #35

"taught a lesson" Union Scribe Aug 2013 #36

+1 indeed, that is the lesson. cali Aug 2013 #42

Inaction is definitely AN OPTION. avaistheone1 Aug 2013 #37

Crimes against humanity are ok as long as you do it slowly in the right way workinclasszero Aug 2013 #61

Anybody else notice that when somebody says "So basically what you're saying is..." Alamuti Lotus Aug 2013 #38

of course not intervening militarily is an option. cali Aug 2013 #40

Of course it is. Democracyinkind Aug 2013 #41

you post this and fun away? cali Aug 2013 #43

In trying to help Syria, an intervention would destroy it cali Aug 2013 #44

What I'm saying is that there is no way to effectively do anything eridani Aug 2013 #48

The rebels are committing the same atrocities. Dash87 Aug 2013 #49

Mr. President...unleash the hounds Vinnie From Indy Aug 2013 #56

Yeah, actually, it is. nt bemildred Aug 2013 #62

Bold assertions do not equal clear thinking. sibelian Aug 2013 #64

Darfur: Is inaction an option there? (n/t) Jim Lane Aug 2013 #65

This message was self-deleted by its author Dash87 Sep 2013 #67

Wait. What are we doing about the children the other side is killing? DirkGently Sep 2013 #68

This isn't a situation the US can solve there's to many sides to this and the potential for genocide Arcanetrance Sep 2013 #69

We have enough problems right here in the US. This playing world policeman B Calm Sep 2013 #71

Syria Inaction is A VALID OPTION Jasana Sep 2013 #72