Knowing the value our government puts on "truth," I'm not ready to accept Secretary of State John Kerry's assertion that chemical weapons were used in Syria.But giving Senator Kerry the benefit of the doubt - so what?
Why does this become our problem? Chemical weapons may kill in a different way, but are we mostly concerned with the mode of murder or with the fact of murder? People have been dying in horrendous ways for many weeks in Syria. If their dying is the concern of the United States, then it makes no difference how they died.
If we believe that killing civilians is cause for American intervention, we should have intervened a long time ago.
But if the method of killing civilians, e.g., chemical weapons, is the determining factor, then the United States once again becomes a miserable model of hypocrisy!
Recently disclosed CIA files have exposed another of "The Gipper's" moral failures. During the Iraq/Iran war, we supported Iraq! How ironic is that? Not only so, but Reagan knew Iraq was using chemical weapons against Iran and approved such use, or, at the least, did nothing to discourage it!
Fast-forward to 2001. G. W. Bush, appointed president by the U.S. Supreme Court, led our country to war against our former ally based upon the big LIE that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, i.e., chemical weapons.
It all stinks. Our hands are dripping blood. Let's not add to the flow by military action in Syria.
Enough of our young men and women have died for no good cause by our leaders' dalliance with stupidity in the Middle East. Enough of our country's treasure has been destroyed by the American war machine's misadventures around the world.
Enough, already!
