Must Read Article from Wash. Post

[piezoe]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ec828d6-1549-11e3-961c-f22d3aaf19ab_blog.html

Please read the entire article including the "National Executive Summary of Declassified Intelligence" tacked on to the end.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from piezoe:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ec828d6-1549-11e3-961c-f22d3aaf19ab_blog.html

Please read the entire article including the "National Executive Summary of Declassified Intelligence" tacked on to the end.

We all know the US has a double standard, mate. (Unless you accept Chomsky's "single standard" argument.) What's your suggestion, a single standard where we always, or never, interrupt the use of chemical weapons?

 

[Clubber Lang]

Washington Post? Why bother reading all that? I can give you the summary-

"It's Bush's fault. Obama 2016!"

 

[piezoe]

Quote from Clubber Lang:

Washington Post? Why bother reading all that? I can give you the summary-

"It's Bush's fault. Obama 2016!"

You are what some might call an anti-intellectual. You not only distrust those who are well educated and knowledgeable, but you denigrate them.

 

[PiggyBank]

Quote from Clubber Lang:

Washington Post? Why bother reading all that? I can give you the summary-

"It's Bush's fault. Obama 2016!"

+1

worst article ever, i stopped at "obama didn't draw the red line, humanity did." hahaha

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from piezoe:

You are what some might call an anti-intellectual.

Is that anything like being labeled a racist, by the left?

You not only distrust those who are well educated and knowledgeable, but you denigrate them.

Obomber is supposedly "well educated and knowledgeable". Look where that has gotten us.

 

[piezoe]

Quote from Ricter:

We all know the US has a double standard, mate. (Unless you accept Chomsky's "single standard" argument.) What's your suggestion, a single standard where we always, or never, interrupt the use of chemical weapons?

You know it. I know it. But sadly, we don't all know it.

My suggestion is that we begin to demand more integrity of our government.

 

[piezoe]

Quote from Lucrum:

Is that anything like being labeled a racist, by the left?Obomber is supposedly "well educated and knowledgeable". Look where that has gotten us.

Lucrum, I'm not defending knowledge, only surreptitiously recommending it as somewhat better than ignorance!

 

[piezoe]

Quote from PiggyBank:

+1

worst article ever, i stopped at "obama didn't draw the red line, humanity did." hahaha

There is no point in repeating. Please see my remarks above relative to "Clubber Lang's" post.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Quote from piezoe:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ec828d6-1549-11e3-961c-f22d3aaf19ab_blog.html

Please read the entire article including the "National Executive Summary of Declassified Intelligence" tacked on to the end.

Bottom line, they have no proof that Assad was responsible, only circumstantial evidence. Moreover, there is no basis in international or domestic US law for the president to take on the responsibility of enforcing a chemical weapons treaty that Syria is not even party to over actions that took place totally within Syria.

The idea that this poses some sort of potential threat to the US is absurd on its face. The "McCain doctrine", that if we don't do something, we lose the ability to react to future outrages or implicitly encourage them is equally absurd.

The one thing we can be certain of is that Obama, Kerry and Pelosi would be the first ones in line opposing a President Romney if he had been elected and came up with a moronic scheme like this. Their moralizing makes me sick to my stomach, even though I did learn that John Kerry apparently served briefly in Vietnam.