I cannot support that which I have yet to be convinced about. There are far too many unknowns and far too many holes in what is being presented.
I am the first to back what our country stands for and NEEDS to do, however I will not back that which I do not believe is for the good of the country. And I also do not believe the action being proposed will accomplish what has been described as a "punishment" for Assaad. And the result will be thousands more innocents already suffaerable lives will be drastically affected and made even worse.
I cannot back supporting a military step that is at best an ill defined hope. And if the first step is ill defined what hope could there be for the subsequent steps that will be generated as a result of the so called punishment.
It was stated today by one of the high ranking generals that it would take 75,000 American troops on the ground to manage and maintain the poison gas locations to have any hope of controlling what we started.
In the event the ill defined step one is approved by the congress, that approval allows Obama to go beyond step one if need be.....with no further approval required.
And I would say on the contrary we are seeing and hearing a united front from the American people....they, like me are NOT IN SUPPORT of going into Syria based on what we have seen and heard to date.
Think about lighting a fuse on a bomb that one does not know how long the fuse is....or how big the bomb is.....or if it could set off other explosions i.e gas and oil storeage etc.....or whether the bomb fallout will be harmful to what ever.....and so on......that is the Syria scenario being played to date.
As some have stated pray the request gets defeated. The fallout from that will affect far fewer lives and ways of life.
btk
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