I Am Against Us Military Action In Syria

Not "could be far worse". We know they are far worse. If you remove Assad, you get ISIS.

@Fussybear: It was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. She claimed to be a nurse when she testified to the U.S. Senate.

@Mugin16: yes I recall now, thanks. Her family may have been bribed or blackmailed

@Fussybear: Or she did her patriotic duty. From the a Kuwaiti point of view, she did nothing wrong.

So sad. It is so easy to start a war and so many people suffer the consequences.

@Cierzo: yes so sorry for the civilians, no power thus not up to them to control.

That is correct. But Kuwait still found it necessary to lie to the U.S. Senate. THey were probably afraid that U.S. was not going to war with Iraq despite the U.N. Security Council resolution.

@dunpender: indeed it was. But for me, the biggest mess of the second war in Iraq was the fact that there was no thought given to a viable exit strategy and, who would take the reins once Saddam was deposed.

And it's the same thing that's bothering me about American intervention in Syria. With Trump at the helm, a guy who has less of an attention span than a goldfish and less geo-political knowledge than my nine year old niece, God only knows where this will end up.

@dunpender: that's true but, the US has had ground troops in Syria for over a month. Nobody invited them. Nobody asked for them to go there. And the chemical attack still happened.

How effective a condign punishment the US missile attack was remains to be seen.

@dunpender: "But Saturday brought fresh reminders that a single U.S. attack would hardly dissuade Assad from his brutal campaign to crush a six-year rebellion that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Residents in the northwestern town of Khan Sheikhoun, where at least 86 people had been killed in the sarin attack, reported that Syrian warplanes had returned and dropped new conventional bombs."

from The Washington Post

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/continued-bombing-by-assad-shows-limits-of-single-us-attack/ar-BBzA4zW?li=BBoPU0R&ocid=HPCDHP

@dunpender: And if the do it again? Or if the rebels stage a gas attack to make it look it was Assad? Then what?

@dunpender: How do you know? ISIS and Al Nusra have used gas before.