re: #329 Romantic Heretic

I’d use less inflammatory terms but yes. Assad is Syria’s problem to solve, not ours.

If we intervene here it will set precedent. What will we do when Russia, say, decides to ‘intervene’ in Georgia or Ukraine? Will we have the right to tell them that is a bad thing they are doing? Why is what they are doing different from what we might do in Syria? Will we ‘intervene’ ourselves? Where would such a thing end?

As I said, the use of chemical weapons on civilians horrifies me. But going to war against Syria is not, in my opinion, the answer.

Russia already beat the shit out of Georgia without UN approval, they just cited “self defense.” We beat the shit out of Iraq, we said we were enforcing UNSC resolutions that invoked “grave consequences” for not cooperating with inspections. The precedent’s already been set.