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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alex MG who wrote (136856)	9/4/2013 12:32:14 AM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Recommended By Metacomet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Let me add......the kind of war Bashar is running is pretty disgusting. For an example, his jets go on random bombing missions. They drop their bombs and then wait 20 min. Then they come back to bomb the people who have gathered to rescue people trapped in the bombed bldgs. He is doing this crap to his own people; not an invading force. Its disgusting. but apparently it wasn't disgusting enough as 100,000 were blown up by bombs there's no way the U.S. can eliminate Syria's chemical weapons with cruise missile attacks so, What is the POINT? Its true that we can't take out the chemical weapons but we can take out his air force/airfields and maybe the presidential palace for the fun of it......who knows we may get lucky. Taking out his air force will cripple Bashar just like it crippled Gaddafi. if we lobbed a few cruise bombs and Assad said "Ok I won't gas any more people, I'll just go back to blowing them to bits with socially accepted weapons of mass destruction"... is that the point? You really don't think Obama will just lob a few cruise missiles aimlessly at the country, do you? Seriously, if Obama is going to do it, he's going to hurt Bashar as much as he can with a limited strike. also, as bad as Assad is... if he was ousted, who would be left to fill the void?... it's a mess... and we are not supposed to be doing it for regime change... so what is the point? So long as al-Assad remains democracy does not have a chance in Syria. With him gone, the playing field is leveled and there are people in Syria who want to be free. I find it rather sad how cynical Americans are about the freedoms of other peoples.