oped: If this is true Israel should make this interception available to the US Congress Intelligence Committee for review and reporting to the American People...we need transparency and proof...not just accusations! Also Israel should step up to the plate and take out Irans Nuke facilities (If) during any action against Syria...we support Israel in money,weapons and equipment....time to pay back and do your fair share!
Ok Israel you have really cute female soldiers and all...however we do not send you money,arms and equipment just so the ladies look cool in uniform...if you get the drift...
Time to make a hit on Iran...thats what we pay you to do!
by: John Hayward
Syria crossed that chemical weapons "red line" in a big way last week, making it very difficult for the Obama Administration to continue doing nothing. Discussion of showering Syria with a few million dollars' worth of cruise missiles is now under way.
It's not clear what the endgame of such direct involvement in the Syrian civil war would be, other than hopefully making the Assad regime less likely to deploy weapons of mass destruction in the future. Wouldn't there be a lot of collateral damage from attacking the regime's chemical stockpiles directly? It's not as if Assad will take steps to ensure civilians evacuate the area ahead of the missile strikes.
If there's any logic to the "red line" talk - military intervention after a thousand chemical weapons fatalities, after ignoring over a hundred times as many fatalities from conventional weapons - it's the idea that deploying weapons of mass destruction is absolutely unacceptable, even when a regime feels itself in mortal peril from external attack or insurgency. That's a principle the world community wants to hold somewhat firm, despite having previously ignored a few relatively minor incidents in Syria.
The Israelis - who claim to have intercepted military communications proving that the Syrian army was responsible for this latest chem warfare attack - want the world community to remember Assad's willingness to use WMD when it ponders the Iranian nuclear program. There have to be some red lines... right?
Ok Israel you have really cute female soldiers and all...however we do not send you money,arms and equipment just so the ladies look cool in uniform...if you get the drift...
Time to make a hit on Iran...thats what we pay you to do!
by: John Hayward
Syria crossed that chemical weapons "red line" in a big way last week, making it very difficult for the Obama Administration to continue doing nothing. Discussion of showering Syria with a few million dollars' worth of cruise missiles is now under way.
It's not clear what the endgame of such direct involvement in the Syrian civil war would be, other than hopefully making the Assad regime less likely to deploy weapons of mass destruction in the future. Wouldn't there be a lot of collateral damage from attacking the regime's chemical stockpiles directly? It's not as if Assad will take steps to ensure civilians evacuate the area ahead of the missile strikes.
If there's any logic to the "red line" talk - military intervention after a thousand chemical weapons fatalities, after ignoring over a hundred times as many fatalities from conventional weapons - it's the idea that deploying weapons of mass destruction is absolutely unacceptable, even when a regime feels itself in mortal peril from external attack or insurgency. That's a principle the world community wants to hold somewhat firm, despite having previously ignored a few relatively minor incidents in Syria.
The Israelis - who claim to have intercepted military communications proving that the Syrian army was responsible for this latest chem warfare attack - want the world community to remember Assad's willingness to use WMD when it ponders the Iranian nuclear program. There have to be some red lines... right?
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