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<blockquote data-quote="ewheeley" data-source="post: 2010210" data-attributes="member: 10387"><p>As much as I would love to stay out of it, our foreign policy since 9/11 somewhat mandates that we do something if al-Assad uses any kind of WMD. You know, considering the fact that we've kind of built up our entire foreign policy around defending freedom and preventing the use of WMD. We invaded Iraq based entirely on the premise of WMD, no way we threaten our credibility on a global stage by knowingly allowing al-Assad to use sarin gas on civilians. </p><p></p><p>That's the other major key, civilians. Whoever thought to compare this to the US Civil War on Page 1, nice try. At what point did Lincoln or Davis order the mass extermination of entire cities? Scorched earth warfare is one thing, but deliberately killing civilians is totally different. </p><p></p><p>Saying that Syria doesn't affect us... Take a good look at the prices the next time you drive by a gas station. al-Assad pulls the trigger on sarin gas attacks and you can add fifty cents to that. If the conflict spills in to Turkey, S will HTF. This conflict is bad in so many different ways for all of Syria's neighbors. Sarin gas attacks would be the last straw to them. It would also probably turn the tide of Russian support in the UN.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ewheeley, post: 2010210, member: 10387"] As much as I would love to stay out of it, our foreign policy since 9/11 somewhat mandates that we do something if al-Assad uses any kind of WMD. You know, considering the fact that we've kind of built up our entire foreign policy around defending freedom and preventing the use of WMD. We invaded Iraq based entirely on the premise of WMD, no way we threaten our credibility on a global stage by knowingly allowing al-Assad to use sarin gas on civilians. That's the other major key, civilians. Whoever thought to compare this to the US Civil War on Page 1, nice try. At what point did Lincoln or Davis order the mass extermination of entire cities? Scorched earth warfare is one thing, but deliberately killing civilians is totally different. Saying that Syria doesn't affect us... Take a good look at the prices the next time you drive by a gas station. al-Assad pulls the trigger on sarin gas attacks and you can add fifty cents to that. If the conflict spills in to Turkey, S will HTF. This conflict is bad in so many different ways for all of Syria's neighbors. Sarin gas attacks would be the last straw to them. It would also probably turn the tide of Russian support in the UN. [/QUOTE]
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