Reports are stating Assad has approved the use of chemical weapons in Idlib.... If true, does the US do anything about it?

opelmanta1900 wrote:

Which is a bigger **** story? Syria or Afghanistan?
Screw red lines, just bring our troops home from both...unless and until the administration can articulate a 'goal', or even a strategy...and unless and until Congress explicitly authorizes further war actions, hurry up and gtfo

dstieger wrote:

Ahem, we haven't brought our boys back from Germany, Italy nor Korea. If we're still there...we're going to be controlling the poppy fields a LOT longer.

DrMaddVibe wrote:

What?

Seems a silly comparison. Pretty easy to make a rational case that US troops in those countries continue serving our interests and those of close allies.

dstieger wrote:

“I don’t like Mr. Assad. I’ve worked with him—tried to work with him, I should say,” Colin Powell, former secretary of state to the Bush administration, said Wednesday at the Washington Ideas Forum. “And he is a pathological liar. He’s a devil. I’d like to see him leave.” - Gen. Powell - 2015 🐴

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/the-pottery-barn-rule-syria-edition/408193/ 

Buckwheat wrote:

Not really.

You're basing your case on money. Do the math.

It's OUR money. Yours...mine...each and every taxpaying citizen. While other nations race into R&D, healthcare, rapid transit systems, high speed internet grids and a host of other items that the US will NEVER have the luxury of because we're too busy with our bases and soldiers...listening stations...airfields...adds up.

DrMaddVibe wrote: