Thursday, September 5, 2013

Tom Friedman: some Syria wisdom….


Tom's back, folks, here's his Sept. 4 piece on what the U.S. should do in Syria to do the right thing: say "No" to use of poison gas.


Before taking instruction from Mr. Friedman, my position on this damnable Syria thing was pretty simple: it's despicable for a government to use poison gas on its own people (or any people), there should be a whole lot of outrage around the world to condemn it, the U.S. should take the lead and draw a line in the sand: No poison gas weapons. Punish Assad!

Honestly, I was hoping President Obama would order our very powerful military to bomb some military target in Syria back to the Stone Age….

But in his "Arm and Shame" piece, Friedman has shaken off the intellectual lethargy that's afflicted him for some time.


Tom says:  let's give arms to the "good guys" among the Syrian rebels, and bolster their fight against the brutal Syrian government and its military forces…let's publicly and stridently condemn Assad and Syrian leaders, in every international forum and in all our diplomatic contacts with other governments, and let's call out the world leaders and governments that don't join us…


Tom says: let's do an unlimited moral response, let's be The Good Guys in every way, and take a pass on a one-time military strike that won't stop Assad, but will be condemned by half the world….

Pass it on.





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