tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post2853449517729724331..comments2024-03-27T11:10:52.382-07:00Comments on On My Mind: Well, That Was ConfusingJayhawkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00756807802218022043noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-83680943777920322382013-09-12T10:40:07.660-07:002013-09-12T10:40:07.660-07:00Any peaceful protests were a long time ago and may...Any peaceful protests were a long time ago and maybe Obama's getting the other Arab countries mixed up in here. Sure Assad has a lot of support, but then so did Saddam Hussein, Adjadminidad [sic], even Obama himself. In theory, democratic countries allow that sort of thing. Repressive countries/leaders, well, I'm of the opinion that maybe we shouldn't be messing in other countries business so much.<br /><br />The whole speech seems to be a lot of trying to talk tough and at the same time get a consensus or a bunch of disparate people /countries /political groups to join him on this endeavor. And it doesn't sound logical and doesn't make sense. He can't have it both ways. And it makes him look more like a bumbling idiot or foolish than otherwise.<br /><br />I think Assad did use them, but I don't see how this is a threat to the US in particular, or to the region. Invoking "terrorists might get them" is like the boogie man under the bed. Far more damage, killing, etc. has been done my conventional arms than WMD and will continue to do so, but nothing is mentioned about those.<br /><br />Iran shouldn't have anything to do with the Syria question. Here he's preaching to the neocon in the US, I'll bet you. And as far as not tolerating chemical weapon use (which it shouldn't be), it's a tad hypocritical to say that when there is all that other bombing, shelling, of civilians and fighters both. Are they any less dead that way? is their livelihoods and homes not ruined? It's just chemical weapons raise a spectre of 'horribleness" that others do not, perhaps.<br /><br />If we (or anyone else) were going to support the Syrian rebels, it is far past time to do so. It should have happened a long time ago, but then it still raises the question of "is it our responsibility to actively assist those in their own internal regime change"? The US doesn't have real good track record in that.<br />brucenoreply@blogger.com