Give Obama a Fucking Break

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48. That assumes there is something to come up with...

An answer does not necessarily exist. This entire issue is a matter of philosophical quarrel. Not all philosophical quarrels have meaningful answers or resolutions.

We live in a world where every evil MUST have an effective response. That's what we tell ourselves. In reality, evil persists against and even evades good. Not necessarily because we do nothing but because there is nothing we can do. Beyond that, we can even doubt this evil/good dichotomy. Deconstruct it. Break it down into its constituent faculties.

It may be the case that there are responses to everything but that they are a measure of good and evil. So we bomb Syria. That is certainly a response. Is it a good response? Does its good overwhelm its evil? I'm not so sure.

There is no easy answer to the situation in Syria.

I wish reason and compassion were the bases for war. Then none of this would have happened. But war is not often grounded in reason or love. The civil war in Syria certainly is no exception.

When you have an abundance of irrationality, the rejection of the rational, being rational is no longer an effective response. So war devolves into a series of irrationalities that are justified not because they are effective but because they necessarily follow the former and necessarily predict the next.