08-29-2013, 09:09 PM
(08-29-2013, 07:48 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I'm opposed to the US overt and covert actions in Syria. It's like we didn't learn from any of our past interventionist mistakes.
So, yes, Assad is a bad guy who's using his army to kill +100 thousand of his own people. These last ~1000 are horrible too.
I think what we should do is; Do our very best to get a UNSC resolution, with Russia and China support in condemning the recent use of chemical weapons. It's not our unilateral role to "punish" Assad for his crimes, until we get him in front of a war crimes tribunal some day.
We preach the rule of law. We should follow it too.
Bolded is the rub of this. Russia is getting money from Syria for all the arms they're selling and China is willing to take a blind eye to it so long as they can get oil from Syria and Iran (yes, Iran is illegally shipping oil through Iraq and Syria and everyone knows it). There is no way you're going to get Russia or China to back a resolution again Syria that has any teeth. This is the problem with the 5 permanent members having veto power.
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Einstein said Everything is Relative.
Heisenberg said Everything is Uncertain.
Therefore, everything is relatively uncertain.