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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOK stupid question here. Why can't Obama just send drones or the military drop dirent bombs
on Assaud's house and all the things he owns. I mean is he in hiding? We killed BinLauden right?
Why is it so hard to kill a brutal dictator and what is wrong with it?
dkf
(37,305 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,163 posts)Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)ann---
(1,933 posts)Why not just go to the U.N. and let THEM take action. Never realized how much Obama would stray from his original message in 2004 at the DNC convention. America is wrong to attack Syria and the consequences, this time, for interfering unilaterally will be terrible, I'm afraid.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)left by dead children.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)Those are crimes of war.
So yes, it is a stupid question.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)who enacts the laws that targeted killing of heads of state is a war crime?
I appreciate your authority.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)When we enter into international agreements the President signs then and then the Congress has to ratify them for us to be a Party. So in a very real sense they are 'enacted' by the same body who makes the rest of our national laws.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)It's interesting that the President is insisting that this is supposed to be a very limited, surgical strike, just to slap Assad's wrist, while people of his own party (Markley, in an an interview yesterday) said that we should give the President the power to wage war.
So, which is it? Are we planning to take him out altogether, or are we just planning to whack his pee-pee?
Either way, it's the innocents who will suffer. As usual.
oldhippie
(3,249 posts)... (your term, not mine), is that running drones and bombers over territory that has a modern, Russian supplied and supported, integrated air defense system, is highly problematic. The drones wouldn't last long enough to do their missions. Unless we go in with massive air defense suppression and command and control strikes, manned bombers and fighters would take heavy losses. I don't think we're up for that.
And what are "dirent" bombs? I can't even figure out for what it might be a misspelling.
on point
(2,506 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,163 posts)Who appointed us to the task?
That's my question.
Iggo
(47,487 posts)...and how many more people got killed in the interim?