What about you? Where do you stand now?
My idea for Syria remains the same, that the Syrian government is the sole power that can restore peace and stability and that occurs by working together to pull strings on them. Not to attack or destroy them as the Neocons wanted Obama to do in 2013. As Hillary had planned since Libya fell and used Benghazi to arm terrorists in Syria. The United States is responsible for the current situation in Syria, and we make it worse the more we prolong the war.
I oppose the United States engaging in regime change.
Now that would be the end on my statement, but the missile strike is partly removed from those concerns. A full on attack / engagement / invasion to help terrorists and remove the Syrian government is NOT what took place. So far US military action has fallen short of that. The reason for the missile strike is supposedly in response to the use of WMDs. Is it legitimate to act against the use of WMDs? I suppose that was the same excuse in 2013 but again, the missile strike falls short of truly negative impacts.
Speaking of the WMD use... the scope of their deployment appears very limited VS their true nature and capabilities. And I seriously question who had the chemicals. I'm not convinced we are right on blaming Assad. But I digress, the question is of the missile strike. If it's truly impactful it would harm the Syrian government and empower terrorists. If it's not impactful, then why bother at all? Why risk escalation? At best it sent a message to not use chemical weapons. Does it really matter? Aleppo should be proof positive that conventional carpet bombing works just fine at killing civilians. I do not fully appreciate the outcry over chemicals VS conventional killing.
The war itself is killing people, that's the threat. Half a million people have died, and more are dying unless we work towards peace.
Towards deescalation. The missile strike is, at best, a risky message to tell Assad to stop using specific weapons he may or may not have used, that may have (all years totaled) killed a few hundred people. This pales in comparison to a real solution to the real problem, and such a missile strike actively works against that effort. Of building a partnership towards ending the war.
At best I was neutral, but having weighed it here I will definitively oppose the missile strike. It harms what really needs to be done.
America playing cowboy is not what the world needs right now. It is not what the dead and the dying in Syria need.
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