re: #62 Political Atheist

My point is there are two separate forks for intervention. One is real Weapons of Mass Destruction, those being weapons capable of mass destruction. It doesn’t matter to me if that is area bombing a city or dropping a nuke on it, if the obviously intent is not to strike at military forces or industrial ones but to attack the civilization itself, then we’re back at WWII levels of civilization conflict and we really don’t want to be.

If chemical weapons are used, or civilians are being raped and tortured, then that’s another axis that we could decide to intervene along, that of wanton cruelty and suffering.

It’s the conflation of the two that’s problematic for me.