350 children die from malnutrition every hour. Let's bomb Syria!

[Dragonfli]

41. I spent a couple of hours discussing this with VR last night, the poster

appears to actually believe this fantasy and WILL NOT LET IT GO no matter what you post in reply. Insisting that just because the goal as stated thus far is to "engage in limited PUNITIVE strikes" and were specifically stated as not intended to be aimed at the chemicals themselves (due to the obvious and very serious dangers of dispersal and an inability to secure chemicals not destroyed or dispersed) that such talk was merely speculation and believes (for an undisclosed reason) that the bombing will very likely be directed towards "neutralizing" chemical weapons and thus saving future children from death by gas at the hands of the Syrian government.

It is a rather nice fantasy, I understand the urge for one to convince oneself that such are the goals of this administration, but pure fantasy, perhaps a belief system built as a way to ease VR's conscious for supporting what is essentially in truth the clearly stated goal of sending bombs that will kill more Syrians and rescue no one as "punishment" and as a bizarre means of communication. or as Obama puts it "sending a message" (apparently a message that will be received by a Shaman of some sort well versed in the art of reading chicken and/or human entrails as well as random explosive debris for the hidden language that can be gleaned and translated by such mystics)

A less bizarre and death ridden message could be sent in a more conventional way using a written language in the form of a letter delivered via diplomatic courier, also an attempt to curtail killing by killing even more people (hardly likely to include any guilty parties except perhaps by coincidence) is ludicrous, cruel, and doomed to fail, but this last bit is I suppose just my opinion.