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In reply to the discussion: That was pretty goddamned incoherent, frankly. [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)That's ridiculous. Obama was looking every ounce "the Decider" who couldn't find the WMDs under the Oval Office rug, but, hey, what's a hundred thousand innocent people slaughtered to take out target #2 of the "Project for a New American Century"?
That's what it looked like, and you can love Obama or hate Obama, but THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE.
Sending Cruise missiles into the tinderbox Middle East COULD trigger nuclear war. At a MINIMUM, it would inflict more slaughter and suffering in Syria. And then there are all the grades of disaster beyond that, including a potential U.S. ground war and nuclear war, with Israel having nuclear weapons, Pakistan having nuclear weapons, India having nuclear weapons, and both Russia and China having big arsenals of nuclear weapons. And all kinds of other really bad possibilities, one of them being strengthening Al Qaeda among the "rebels" in Syria and the region and another being a spreading ground war among various countries and their "rebels" and tribal and religious factions.
It's a TINDERBOX. You don't send missiles into a tinderbox unless you are willing to deal with the conflagration that you may ignite.
When the President of the United States starts saber-rattling, we're not supposed to object? Who knows if he's serious? He said he was. He said he had the power to attack Syria without anybody's agreement, here or around the world.
It's not a matter of hating Obama. It's a matter of hating WAR.
I find it amazing that people who want PEACE somehow get turned around into "bad guys" and "haters." I've seen it in a number of threads now, and it's "Alice in Wonderland" insane.
Please stop doing this. It is so unfair. Furthermore, this situation is NOT over. Here we are poised yet again over unilateral U.S. military action, nervously awaiting the outcome of diplomatic efforts and UN weapons inspectors. We don't know what's going to happen next. And we are going to be faced with this again and again, as our "military-industrial complex" manufactures yet more reasons for its existence and profitability. We are in fact engaged in a "Forever War." Realizing this has nothing to do with hating anybody. It has to do with wanting THIS country to become a PEACEFUL country.