04-14-2017, 01:28 AM
(04-13-2017, 07:49 PM)Dill Wrote: You leave me totally puzzled, Justwin.
No, we are not able to judge Obama's actions a failure, especially after he removed Syria's nerve gas stockpiles and Assad did not use any for three years. And he did this without military action.
We don't need long term policy goals to say that Assad's actions were bad. But we do need them to judge whether ours were "successful" or effective, not to mention good or bad.
No special reason to believe Hillary would have reacted impulsively, ignoring diplomacy and prior agreements.
You get authoritarian style points for pronouncing the matter "done" before you hear anyone's response, though.
Are you attempting to disagree with me here, or are you just trying to straddle the fence because you're not sure whether I was criticizing Obama, praising him, or drawing a restrained middle ground?
Hillary LITERALLY said two hours before the attack that we should bomb Syria. How was that confusing?!?
And did Obama remove Assad's nerve gas stockpiles? Did he? How do you know this? Did you mean he trusted Putin to do it?
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