re: #163 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Okay, so what’s our plan for making sure that the government that rises afterwards is good? We haven’t really figured that one out yet anywhere else, so why do we think we can manage it here?

And a nuke would kill a lot more people. Chemical weapons are awful because of the way they kill and their indiscriminate nature, nukes are a totally different magnitude. There is no comparison.

What’s our plan now? Assad wins, we’re now stuck with a guy who is even more pissed at us for funding and aiding the rebels. The rebels win, we now wait to see who rises to the top of the heap and decide whether or not we want yet another theocracy in the Middle East. We’re putting it off til tomorrow in the hopes that whatever comes out the other end will be easier to deal with.