What would you do in Syria

[Dill]

(04-14-2017, 01:28 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: 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?

Russia, the US, the UN and OPCW worked together to identify and remove the gas. Finland and Great Britain destroyed a portion of the gas. The US destroyed the rest on a ship at sea. all this per UN resolution 2118. It was the Organization for Prevention of Chemical Warfare which oversaw the operation and verified the destruction.

I said that Clinton would not react impulsively, and would work within precedent and diplomatic frameworks. I stand by that. That doesn't exclude bombing. everyone knows she is more hawkish than Obama. The complaint about Trump is not THAT he bombed but that he did it IMPULSIVELY, 180 u turn in policy.

With no overall foreign policy strategy, it is hard to know whether Trump's action will have positive results. It certainly put Americans on the ground in Syria in immediate danger. Why would Syria suddenly turn to nerve gas right AFTER Trumps' secretary of state signaled Syria was not our concern.

So yes, I was disagreeing with you if you think we can judge the success of Trump's without a coherent policy framework.