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Originally posted by whozit:
I'd like to know where Obama stands, does he want to bomb a small country to get a boner or not?

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I'd sure like to have heard intelligent comments from others here; there are many whose opinions I respect, and I was hoping they'd speak up. Oh, well...

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Thank you, G. I guess yours is the only intelligent response this thread may get. It's pretty telling that, in my opinion and many others, the Syria question is a pretty serious one facing our country, yet the only others to bother to respond do so to play nasty little games.

I've done a lot of reading and thinking the past week about Syria, and it kind of "congealed" if you will in the last day or two. I think I've come down on the side of not wanting us involved. I hate doing nothing, but I don't see anything USEFUL we really can do, and I don't trust governments to do the "right" thing, whatever that even might BE.

I'd sure like to have heard intelligent comments from others here; there are many whose opinions I respect, and I was hoping they'd speak up. Oh, well...

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Well, NewOld, you nailed the one thing that I keep screaming inside: "doesn't the Civilized world have to do something?"

...but then the rest of what you wrote, and so much more. So, like you, I say "it's a loser no matter what we do".

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Well, NewOld, you nailed the one thing that I keep screaming inside: "doesn't the Civilized world have to do something?"

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Um, what "Civilized world" would that be? Us?
Reminds me of one of my favorites:

"What do you think about Western Civilization?"
"I think it's a good idea."

By the way - us dropping bombs is likely to produce more images of dead innocent Syrians, this time that the US has killed (or not, truth doesn't matter), images which will no doubt circulate around the ME further endearing us to the people there.

And bombing will create more refugees - 200 million now, what's another 100,000 without a home.

What do we GAIN again? Is it just to make some of us here, thousands of miles away and safe in our homes, feel better?

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