Should we have waited for the rule of law there too?
I agree we should disengage from the nation building nonsense Bush and Obama got into, but when Pol Pot copy cats come along, root them out.
Probably not the best example. The "free countries" did nothing about the Khmer Rouge and it was left to post-unification Vietnam to invade Cambodia and clean up the mess.
Vietnam was then sanctioned for its aggressive invasion of a sovereign nation..
Russia invaded and bombed Ukraine. Still meddling there, btw.
Chemical weapons inspectors are supposed to be starting their work on the 14th.
And we start bombing with confidence the day of?
Nothing is adding up. LET ALONE THE LEGALITY OF IT.
Sorry, I'm mad.
If Assad did do it, then we are simply responding to what he did. If Assad didn't do it, well, it's not the first time our government has lied to us. Either way, this military action will not have much effect on the outcome of the conflict so it's not as if we're messing anything up too bad.
What the government says is only tiny portion of the information we have on any situation.
We also have what 200 other governments say, what academics say, what thousands of different journalists say, what historical precedent says, and what your own logic and intuition says.
Your obedience to the government narrative makes you the perfect tool of those in power.
We have a rule of law. It's called the Geneva Protocol and Assad violated it!
It's not that such things don't exist, but they're much less common than people jumping to the conclusion that someone they disagree with isn't posting in good faith. I've written tons about this if you or anyone wants to read more:
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
That's my point. Russia was wrong. And so are we.