04-07-2017, 11:06 AM
(04-07-2017, 10:42 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I suppose if we were forbidden to move forward because of the sins of our forefathers, we wouldn't get very far.
We've pretty much let him do as he pleases, until he showed us and the world that he did not comply with a peaceful demand from 2013.
In 2015 we bombed a hospital in Afghanistan, we killed 42 people. The cockpit crew even questions if they should be bombing a hospital but were ordered to carry out the attack anyways. We got a slap on the wrist from the international community, no one launched tomahawk missiles at our airbases.
We do not live in a world where armies march on to a battlefield anymore, they fight surrounded by civilians and with that civilians die. You can disagree with Assad and his tactics, but he is conducting a war to protect his countries sovereignty, and collateral damage is a part of war. What we can't do is get outraged over collateral damage unless we can prove the intent was to kill civilians, which at this point we can not.
