burny wrote: How about in 1939? You'd have disagreed with that as well? .
the two aren't in the least bit comparable and I think you kinda know that already.
I'd be all for war if it would do any good. Is this world a safer place since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Are you safer? What good is this gonna do? For every fanatic you kill, you just create a hundred more. It's endless, doesn't matter what they call themselves..
Bombing Syria just makes us a bigger target, not just to terrorists overseas but to home grown terrorists.
"Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate atrocities against my people all over the world.
And your support of them makes you directly responsible, just as I am directly responsible for protecting and avenging my Muslim brothers and sisters."
How do you defeat that with bombs and missiles? :-/
I'm just looking at it from a selfish(but also rational) point of view. We're obsessed with the middle east. If the argument is one of compassion 'how can we sit back and watch innocent people die'….etc etc
well, we've done it before many times over. We've don't seem to give two fucks about conflicts in Africa.