If we want to help in Syria why not send them gas masks and atropine / 2-pam chloride injectors, and offer to remove the chemical weapons held by each side, to be destroyed in a verified manner, with the task split between USA and Russia. Do we know that Assad is really responsible for these recent chemical attacks? He might be, but his timing seems very stupid, killing civilians within the first 2 days of a UN inspection. Maybe he is responsible - maybe it’s a third party. How will more bombing help?
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Holy shit this is a bad idea. Not that I have a good idea, but still.
How to enumerate the problems with this?
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The UN weapons inspectors are being given less rather than more time to investigate than they had before the Iraq war.
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The proposal is to start killing people to send a message to a dictator who clearly has no problem with killing people, but not to actually accomplish any military objective.
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Assad obviously denies using chemical weapons on his people. So blowing shit up until he promises not to do it again can’t even achieve any political objective.
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Syrians with no current grievance against the west will have relatives killed by the US. Don’t expect them to be grateful.
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Syria: On why good sense may yet prevail on Obama. http://bit.ly/1dVeZSP
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