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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 2767450" data-attributes="member: 14668">Syria is basically a 3-way civil war in which 2 sides hate us and one side strongly dislikes us. We have no role to play there.However...the case could perhaps be made that chemical weapons are so horrific that we are morally obligated to retaliate with punitive air/missile strikes against anyone who uses them against civilians.If that is to be our policy though, then it needs to be authorized ahead of time by Congress and only carried out against legitimate, defined military targets.Notifying the Russians hours ahead of time about a token, symbolic strike against an airfield that is conveniently evacuated and subsequently repaired in a day doesn&#039;t accomplish anything, except to waste $100 million worth of Tomahawks (and to distract the public&#039;s attention away from the complete and utter <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />show that is the US Presidency.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 2767450, member: 14668"] Syria is basically a 3-way civil war in which 2 sides hate us and one side strongly dislikes us. We have no role to play there. However...the case could perhaps be made that chemical weapons are so horrific that we are morally obligated to retaliate with punitive air/missile strikes against anyone who uses them against civilians. If that is to be our policy though, then it needs to be authorized ahead of time by Congress and only carried out against legitimate, defined military targets. Notifying the Russians hours ahead of time about a token, symbolic strike against an airfield that is conveniently evacuated and subsequently repaired in a day doesn't accomplish anything, except to waste $100 million worth of Tomahawks (and to distract the public's attention away from the complete and utter :censored:show that is the US Presidency.) [/QUOTE]

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