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>>>>>They hesitate to attack Syria?
>>>>>Tsk, tsk, tsk, What a bunch of impotent Chamberlains! Where is our Winnie the Warrior when we need him the most! {g}
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>>>>It sounds more like Vietnam and Iraq to me than it does like Munich.
>>>>There was no justification for either of those wars and there's no justification for a US attack on Syria.
>>>>I thought that I'd never agree with Rand Paul on anything, but on this issue he has the only clear eyes in Washington.
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>>>No justification? We should just stand by idly when All Scruples Assad commits genocide on his own people? I think targeted bombs are justified, up to and including Assad himself.
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>>Any evidence of Assad using chemical weapons ? (Versus clear evidence so called 'rebels' had them in their premises)
>>Perhaps they can dust off Collin Powell to make another convincing speech and there you go again...
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>>>We should just stand by idly when All Scruples Assad commits genocide on his own people?
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>Of course we should standly idly by.
>When did we become the world's police force?
>We'd be violating international law by attacking a country unilaterally but that hasn't been much of a problem for us since the 1960's.
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>That police force mentality led to disasters in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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>My war, Korea, was aptly called a "police action."
>History will judge whether that war should have been fought, but at least we had a situation where an ally was being invaded by a foreign power and I served side by side with soldiers from other UN countries.
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>All wars since WWII have been wars of choice- not of necessity- and all resulted in needless loss of lives.
>No one likes to bring it up, but the number of Iraqi's slaughtered as a result of our invasion is in the hundreds of thousands.
>Think about that before calling other people war criminals.
>Syria is in a region containing countries with the capability to stop Assad anytime they want and they don't choose to.
>Let them police countries in their own region if in fact anyone should.
>Meanwhile, we should police Detroit, Baltimore, DC, Camden, etc.

We are the world's police force, like it or not. Like you I wish we could focus on problems here at home. It just isn't that simple. Even though we are hated in most parts of the world, we are looked to as the strong force in the face of evil. It is part of our destiny as a country.

No hard feelings to either you or Sergey. You are both among my favorites here. We just disagree about this.