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LGF Poll: Do You Support Limited Military Action Against Syria?

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Blind Frog Belly White9/03/2013 3:32:33 pm PDT

re: #471 EPR-radar

I gave a straight answer to this question above, but this is a really shitty way to make your point. Especially the pre-emptive slandering of fellow commenters here as not caring about dead children, as long as they are foreign dead children.

Indeed. There are a number of really good reasons NOT to do this, like the fact that the opposition in Syria is not necessarily the folks you want running a country in such a strategically important place; the fact that you can’t just bomb the chemical weapons storage depots without gassing the surrounding areas; the fact that NOBODY besides France seems to be with us; the fact that the US bombing another Muslim nation is likely to inflame anti-American feeling EVEN THOUGH we’d be doing it ostensibly in support of the population; the fact that no matter how careful we are some civilians will be killed by us; and the danger of getting our foot stuck in the door.

It’s not something to be undertaken lightly, and in consequence not something to use to attack those who are reluctant.