US, UK approves strikes on Syria

[Kane]

That’s actually not true....they’ve used chemical weapons throughout 2017 and up to 2018 - this was just used on a large swath of people inadvertently.

[Spider]

[Spider]

[Kane]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_ch ... _Civil_War

Just so that we're all on the same page here...chemical attacks continued following the 2017 strikes and probably will after these as well. Sure, might not be Sarin but it's hard to control for Chlorine.

Again, I feel like this has done very little. We keep going after targets that make no sense. Take out the aircraft that deliver these weapons? You know...if it's a red line then act like it?

[fstarcstar]

Kane, this really isn’t that hard to comprehend.

[Spider]

[Kane]

[exploited]

The US and their entourage should focus on either building an independent Kurdish state spanning parts of Syria and Iraq, or back off, let Assad finish the job and let the ING die the death it deserves.

Extended conflict between Western powers over fundamentally broken and dysfunctional territory serves nobody. It would be better if a state takes control of most of Syria and properly administers it... if only to stem the flow of refugees and improve the lives of regular people. Instead it is a dick-measuring contest with hundreds of thousands of needless deaths, a conflict propped up by meaningless disputes among Westerners.

Personally, I'm cool with creating another Israel in the Middle East, and hoping at some point that the norms of modern Western civilization take hold. That's the Kurdistan option.

If not that, time to bail out of the region and let them murder each other, with the strongest man hopefully establishing order of any kind.

[Kane]

Well that would be China.

[JDHURF]