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Originally Posted by Tchocky
That only comes up if you're looking for things to be contrary about.
I don't think we can honestly claim that the death and destruction caused by a conventional war is the same as a direct attack on civilians using nerve agents.
In the essence, yes, people die all the same. But one is not the same as the other.
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Syria tortures and kills innocents, children to adults by the 1000's, if we're talking what's humane, is it OK to kill 7000 several civilians with conventional weapons, only act when maybe 500-1000 total deaths due to chemicals? I rather drop dead from gas that be burned to death from a bomb.
I understand laws that arose due to chemicals being weapons of possible mass destruction, but that's now the case here. All this talk keeps us off the issues.
This is a civil war and like all Muslim civil wars they'll kill and torture. On one side you have several groups, some radical, versus the common dictator. I think the reason dictators come to power is because it beats all the factions. If Assad is overthrown, then the factions fighting together now would go to killing each other later. I think we best stay out of it, heck, one in five American children go hungry each day, let's that fix that first.
As long as Arabs live in the dark ages of their radical religion, theyll continue to live like hell. Let them have their war, if the winner turns out to be an issue, we can deal with that later.