Yeah dude, I think that's the one single thing we can all agree on. We may not all agree on policies and politics, but Trump is most definitely a dumbass.
I think North Korea should be invaded. All those untapped North Korean hotties that we don't currently have access to. We could blow up the scantily clad tread after we free them all. Oh, I'd be in heaven, heaven I tells ya!
Civilians getting gassed is very bad, but so is civilians getting bombed and ripped to shreds with shrapnel. So you can bomb your civilians to bits, but don't gas 'em. Dead is dead.
Wrong. There is a difference, and thats why the USA needs to step up and show some damn leadership and stop the erosion of norms that have kept relative peace for the last 65 years.
at least trump's intentions are clear and consistent. no telegraphing either. 24 hours later we'll see what happens. waiting for advise from hannity and fox and friends.
Just seems strange that we will stand by while 106,000 civilians are killed by bombs since the war started (almost 5,000 in the past 3 months), but if 70 civilians die by a gas attack suddenly we're all in. I agree that we should intervene and enforce norms, but let's face it, our norms are f'ed up.
The difference is that during WW1 the whole world, including some really f'ed up authoritarians, agreed not to use chemical weapons anywhere, ever. I think preserving that norm is worth a few hundred cruise missiles. Also, IMHO "all in" would mean forced regime change. We have a spectrum of diplomatic and not-so-diplomatic options on the table, regime change being the extreme.
Unless they pose a direct threat to the US, which Assad does not, don't see how it's worth fighting. Just more American blood being spilled for a war that will never have a clear resolution. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan all over again. Just more tax dollars going to fund a war to help other countries. Those dollars could go a lot further to improve actual American lives spent over here.