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My point is we can do one, but not the other. I call BS.You are using an apples to cinderblocks analogy here. One is planning a military action in advance, not involving U.S. personnel under attack, and the other is reacting to the attack of U.S. personnel - other than both actions being conducted in a foreign land there is not much parallel here.
My point is we can do one, but not the other. I call BS.
I may want to ride a motorcycle but not want to play piano. Obama wants to do one and does not want to do the other, since they are not related to each other. The main point may be that by doing one pressure for doing the other may be diminished.
Oh, but the hair splitters will say it really wasnt an embassy. It was a temporary consulate, and we had paid for security from locals.It may seem counterintuitive, but the one time I think we should intervene militarily in the internal affairs of a sovereign state is when one of our embassies is under attack and that government does nothing to protect it.
Under international law an embassy is the sovereign soil of the nation inhabiting it. That means any attack on it is an attack on that nation. People who try that on one of ours need to know we will not tolerate it, ever. So I have no problem sending in Marines or Rangers to defend our embassies. No more Iranian Hostage Crisis for us!
It may seem counterintuitive, but the one time I think we should intervene militarily in the internal affairs of a sovereign state is when one of our embassies is under attack and that government does nothing to protect it.
Under international law an embassy is the sovereign soil of the nation inhabiting it. That means any attack on it is an attack on that nation. People who try that on one of ours need to know we will not tolerate it, ever. So I have no problem sending in Marines or Rangers to defend our embassies. No more Iranian Hostage Crisis for us!
It may seem counterintuitive, but the one time I think we should intervene militarily in the internal affairs of a sovereign state is when one of our embassies is under attack and that government does nothing to protect it.
Under international law an embassy is the sovereign soil of the nation inhabiting it. That means any attack on it is an attack on that nation. People who try that on one of ours need to know we will not tolerate it, ever. So I have no problem sending in Marines or Rangers to defend our embassies. No more Iranian Hostage Crisis for us!
Syria, like Egypt or Libya, will not likely magically and peacefully transform into having a secular, democratic form of gov't simply because the current tyrant in charge is ousted. At best it is a roll of the dice to see if ousting Assad will make things get much better in Syria without considerable, long term (i.e. very expensive) U.S. involvement. The limitted, military raid, that Obama seems to want, amounts to poking a hole in the hornet's nest.
They are two entirely different things the attack on Benghazi is a one-time event that lasted less than 24 hours meanwhile Syria has been going on for awhile and they are planning a military strike not a heat of the moment rescue operation.
we can work hard to save people in Syria at the cost of millions to the US taxpayer.
We cant even find the guys that killed our ambassador, but we can spend millions to change the whole regime of another country. For what?
I can garrantee we will kill more than 1400 innocents by the time we finish bombing.
That's is surely possibly but, if the Regime (ours) keeps telegraphing when, where and how we are going to do the deed, chances are no one will 'really' get killed or injured.
No, but I can garrantee you the web will be flooded with pics supposedly of dead women and children.
They are two entirely different things the attack on Benghazi is a one-time event that lasted less than 24 hours meanwhile Syria has been going on for awhile and they are planning a military strike not a heat of the moment rescue operation.
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