Leave Syria Alone!

[Thatguy]

So it looks like we're fixen to bomb yet another Muslim country. Are our leaders insane?!!! Look at what happened when we did that crap with Iraq. That country is still bleeding. And it became a base for supporters of Osama Bin Laden's point of view. In my opinion, a dictatorship is the best form of government for most Muslim countries. Then, If Syria's leadership falls, we'll have to send in troops to secure their chemical weapons. After that, who knows what kind of conflict we'll be drawn into.
The reason their leadership probably used chemical weapons is that they figured the U.S. wouldn't be stupid enough to get involved. I think they're underestimating the stupidity of America. If we help out this group of Muslims, the other group will want to suicide bomb us. If we help out the other group of Muslims, then the other group will want to suicide bomb us. The tragic thing is that whenever there is conflict, dollar signs appear in the eyes of those who's opinion really matters in this country. Please try to contact your congressman or whatever and tell them to leave Syria alone.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - dat oughta make Assad sit up an' take notice...

US Attacks Syrian Airbase in Retaliation for Chemical Weapons Attack
April 06, 2017 — The U.S. military fired a barrage of missiles into Syria Friday morning in retaliation for a gruesome chemical weapons attack blamed on President Bashar al-Assad's forces that killed about 100 civilians. It is the first direct U.S. assault on Syrian government forces.

The 59 Tomahawk missiles were fired from the USS Porter and the USS Ross, a U.S. military official told VOA. Both destroyers are deployed in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. A Navy official said the Shayrat Airfield in western Syrian was targeted because it was most likely used to launch Tuesday's chemical strikes, which U.S. officials believe contained a nerve gas, possibly sarin.

'Sarin nerve gas'

“We have a very high level of confidence it was carried out by aircraft of the Bashar al-Assad regime” and high degree of confidence it was “sarin nerve gas," U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday. In a prime time address to the nation, U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the strikes. "On Tuesday Syrian President Bashar al Assad launched a horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent. ... Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched," Trump said. "It is in this vital national security interest of the Untied States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons," he added.

Victims of a suspected chemical weapons attack lie on the ground in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, Syria, April 4, 2017. The attack, one of the deadliest in Syria's civil war, killed about 100 civilians and sickened 350 others.​

U.S. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham released a statement shortly after the U.S. strike, saying, “We salute the skill and professionalism of the U.S. Armed Forces who carried out tonight’s strikes in Syria. Acting on the orders of their commander-in-chief, they have sent an important message the United States will no longer stand idly by as Assad, aided and abetted by Putin’s Russia, slaughters innocent Syrians with chemical weapons and barrel bombs."

U.S. forces are said to have targeted Shayrat Airfield in western Syria, in retaliation for the chemical weapons attack that American officials believe Syrian government aircraft launched on a rebel-held town with a nerve gas, possibly sarin.​

National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster spoke after the airstrikes Thursday. “Obviously, the regime will retain a capacity to commit mass murder with chemical weapons beyond this airfield,” he said adding that this is the “first time the United States has taken direct military action” against the Assad regime. "This was not a small strike,” he added.

Calls on civilized nations​

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Utter Disregard for Rights Seen in Cruelty of Syrian War
April 06, 2017 - Tuesday's alleged chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, which has left dozens dead, was the latest outrage in a conflict marked by human rights violations carried out on an industrial scale, rights activists say.

From the start, the conflict saw a disregard of the rules of war the world has tried to establish since World War II. The warning signs came quickly. A series of massacres occurred in spring 2012 in three districts of Homs involving government soldiers and members of the notorious Shabiha militia, ultra-loyal enforcers of the regime drawn from President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.

Journalist Steven Sotloff, who had been captured in Aleppo, being held by the militant group. He was later beheaded.​

First came a siege, then homes were raided by assailants who raped and killed, according to locals interviewed by VOA shortly afterward and rights organizations. Dead bodies were burned, corpses were mutilated and rights activists documented the killing of at least 224 civilians, including 44 children and 48 women. Months later, this correspondent interviewed Saima, a 38-year-old woman who had survived the massacre. Brandishing her scarred hand, she said she'd been shot in it, seen her husband's first wife slain by Shabiha and a neighbor raped. She and her three daughters escaped only because an Alawite militiaman took pity on them. Other girls weren't so lucky.

A mound of death

"They raped teenagers," Saima told me almost in a whisper, claiming that the day after the massacre she saw naked girls in a hospital piled up dead. A 2015 report by the the U.N.'s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic concluded the war had been "characterized by a complete lack of adherence to the norms of international law." From medieval-style torture in jails and detention centers, to the imposition of "surrender or starve" sieges aimed at denying whole communities food and medical supplies, to indiscriminate artillery bombardments and airstrikes on towns and villages, including the dropping of earth-shaking barrel bombs on residential areas, to the release of sarin and chlorine gases, the war has plumbed the depths of depravity. Since World War II, few conflicts have come close to matching what's been happening in Syria. Rights experts and historians mention the conflicts in Biafra, the Congo, the Balkans and the 1994 Rwanda genocide as competitors in infamy.

A jihadi-led rebel fighter fires a gun in a valley in Latakia province, Syria. Rebels killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, an international human rights group said, Oct. 11, 2013.​

The list of authoritative reports into rights abuses and war crimes in Syria is long. They include a 2014 U.N. report; a 2015 independent report on the credibility of allegations about torture and executions in Syrian jails; and a 2013 U.N. report on allegations of the use of chemical weapons. As early as 2013, then-U.N. human rights commissioner Navi Pillay warned that the scale of viciousness "almost defies belief." She accused Assad of being implicated in war crimes. Assad and his top officials have denied responsibility for rights violations. In an interview with the BBC in 2015, Assad denied his forces dropped barrel bombs. "I know about the army. They use bullets, missiles and bombs. I haven't heard of the army using barrels, or maybe, cooking pots," he said.

Atrocities in plain sight

 

[Darkwind]

The only mistake made in Iraq was the nation building.

This time, just break the shit and then go have a Sam Adams Boston Lager.