04-07-2017, 10:18 AM
(04-07-2017, 10:04 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I think the ball is in Assad's court (and Russia). If he retaliates he needs to be removed, if not just let him continue to fight his rebels while we work with a coalition (hopefully involving some ME powers) to eliminate ISIS and establish safe zones.
Assad is fighting his war against terrorists in his sovereign country the way he believes it should be fought. War is hell, but we should not pretend like we would not be considered lunatic murderers if we fought our wars in the information era. We have a long history of fighting wars in a barbaric and brutal manor. We killed almost 200k people in Japan using weapons far worse than Assad's, for no other reason than to show the Russians our power with our nuclear weapons. We knew Japan was going to surrender within 10 days, but we dropped them anyways. The BS about not wanting to risk lives in an invasion was debunked years later by high level generals and even the President later in his life. In the Western theater we carpet bombed the shit out of Dresden and Hamburg killing 25k+ civilians because we frankly were sick of the Nazi's retaking cities. We probably don't even want to talk about Napalm in Vietnam.
Our country is probably one of the top 5 murderers of civilians in the modern era. We are the world hypocrite. Is it wrong what Assad did? Yes. Should we be out there telling people how to fight their wars? No.
