What would you do in Syria

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(04-07-2017, 11:06 AM)Au165 Wrote: 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.

First of all: We shouldn't hold Trump accountable for Obama's mistakes. I am aware of a Air Support miscommunication the resulted in the death of 22 civilians in which a Doctors without Borders compound was bombed as afghan forces reported insurgents were occupying it. I am unaware of any planned bombing of a hospital.

Once again we have pretty much let Assad do as he wishes to "protect his country's sovereignty",  but he was told in 2013 that using Chemical weapons was a no-no. We could not let his blatant disregard of this demand go unanswered.