John Kerry said yesterday that there is absolutely no doubt about the fact that Syria deployed nerve gas that killed hundreds. Now there's, talk about getting the U.N. on board and getting our allies to join us so that whatever we do by the way of retaliation is not unilateral. In other words, politics rules the day. This kind of pussy-footing around has never been proven to be an effective strategy; it's as if WE are on eggshells when THEY should be.
To be clear, I do not think we should get involved at all unless the United Nations asks us to. Their civil war is internal and therefore a matter to be dealt with between their government and their people. Surely, using nerve gas is reprehensible. Their whole damned civil war is reprehensible. But, in international law, theirs is a sovereign nation and we have no right to interfere, no matter how righteous we are.
Yet, Obama drew his line in the sand and threatened Assad if he ever crossed it, which Assad has done. Failure to act by Obama can only be seen as another weakness be terrorists everywhere. If it were up to me, and I had to act, I'd just lob a bomb or two into Assad's living room like we did to Gaddafi once years ago. That got the the message to him in a big way. And, I'd already have it done. The way they're going about it, it'll probably be Christmas before anything happens, if it ever does.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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