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Simfan34
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« on: June 30, 2012, 08:39:16 AM »

Paul continues to be an asinine ideologue.

The idea letting Assad's regime stand would be better for Syrians is ridiculous and embarrassing to anyone who suggests it.
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Simfan34
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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2012, 11:32:15 AM »
« Edited: June 30, 2012, 11:35:15 AM by magbar anti-American national or club soccer aficionadoes »

Paul continues to be an asinine ideologue.

The idea letting Assad's regime stand would be better for Syrians is ridiculous and embarrassing to anyone who suggests it.

The idea is that it's better for America if Americans do not die overseas.

The idea is that it's better for America, and the world, to not have innocent people be slaughtered by a dictator. Your phrase is idiotic. It's like suggesting that had we known about the Holocaust we shouldn't have intervened because "Americans might die". Don't tell me that was different. Is there some number of people killed at which point some switch turns on and an intervention becomes acceptable? Nonsense. We have a moral obligation as a nation with the means to help those in Syria to help them. Every nation with the means to do so does. It's simple human decency.
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Simfan34
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« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2012, 11:49:30 AM »
« Edited: June 30, 2012, 11:56:07 AM by magbar anti-American national or club soccer aficionadoes »

Paul continues to be an asinine ideologue.

The idea letting Assad's regime stand would be better for Syrians is ridiculous and embarrassing to anyone who suggests it.

The idea is that it's better for America if Americans do not die overseas.

The idea is that it's better for America, and the world, to not have innocent people be slaughtered by a dictator. Your phrase is idiotic. It's like suggesting that had we known about the Holocaust we shouldn't have intervened because "Americans might die". Don't tell me that was different. Is there some number of people killed at which point some switch turns on and an intervention becomes acceptable? Nonsense. We have a moral obligation as a nation with the means to help those in Syria to help them. Every nation with the means to do so does. It's simple human decency.

And having innocent people slaughtered by American jets/drones and a dictator is better how?

You're circumlocuting. We don't go about slaughtering innocent people, that's just hogwash. If you want to go to Iraq and Afghanistan, the data consistently shows that only about a third of the civilian casualties were caused by Coalition forces.
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Simfan34
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« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2012, 04:10:35 PM »

Well, at least we agree on something.
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