So what is your red line? If Iran used a nuke and killed 1 million of it's own people

[Savannahmann]

73. Perhaps if an intelligent plan was put forth, our opposition might change.

Because right now, the plan is to bomb the Syrian people because Assad used Chemical Weapons on the Syrian People. We aren't going for Regime Change, so there will be no attack on Assad personally. In other words we're talking about punishing the people that he is punishing for revolting against his authority.

If that paragraph above makes no sense, neither does any of the reported plans. We have no goal, and no action that we are even considering taking that gets even close to one. We can't bomb the chemical weapons themselves, that would release them and wipe out more people than have been killed so far. We can't bomb Assad, President Obama has ruled out Regime Change.

If we did bomb Assad, we would be helping groups that are aligned with terrorists who hate us and have been killing us for the last twelve years.

Right now, I don't see an intelligent well thought out plan, or a goal that makes any kind of sense. Right now, I see a parent who is furious that their child disobeyed. We aren't thinking, and we should never support actions based on emotions when lives are at stake, not just American, but any life.

I have not mentioned the opposition to our proposed actions by the Russians and Chinese. Have we come up with a way to address that? Right now, we seem to be operating under the "They wouldn't dare" frame of mind which could be worse, but I'm not sure how.

I am in opposition because there isn't a plan. There isn't a goal, or a strategic point in which we declare victory. We risk becoming the pariah of the world, hated and opposed by everyone.