04-07-2017, 11:34 AM
(04-07-2017, 11:28 AM)bfine32 Wrote: 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.
You said "sins of our forefathers", it was two years ago, it is a pattern of reckless disregard for civilian casualties that is not dependent on who is in charge. We were told in 1929 that waterboarding was illegal, however we have decided the end justifies the mean and decided we would do it anyways. As I said we are the world's biggest hypocrite when it comes to wars and what is and isn't allowed. You can try and hide behind Trump didn't do those, but we as a country did and yet somehow we still feel it is our place to tell people what is and isn't allowed in war. We try and set the rules but don't play by them ourselves.
We attacked a foreign country unjustified, i.e. not in defense of our own people and not in the midst of a recognized war. We by all military standards declared war on Syria, but hey we are the U.S. so we can do what we want.
