{"id":37340,"date":"2013-08-30T14:44:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37340"},"modified":"2013-08-30T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T18:45:44","slug":"kerry-defends-decision-to-use-force-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37340","title":{"rendered":"Kerry defends decision to use force on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ya know what? If I was the president, I don’t think I’d send out someone who more than half of the country polled in a general election expressed distrust to explain my case. Kerry, rightly said that we don’t have to take his word for anything, and I certainly wouldn’t. Kerry’s TV appearance today was based solely on emotion and not even a little bit on proven facts. You can watch the video at this link<\/a>, if you can stand to listen to that voice. <\/p>\n

All he proves is that which we already know – someone used some sort of poison gas on a large number of people, but he doesn’t offer any proof that it was indeed the Assad regime. <\/p>\n

“I’m not asking you to take my word for it,” Kerry said, urging people to read the report. “This is what Assad did to his own people.” <\/p>\n

Kerry called Bashar Assad a “thug” and a “murderer” who must not be allowed to escape retribution for the attack. <\/p>\n

The intelligence assessment said the U.S. government has “high confidence” that the Syrian government carried out the chemical attack using a nerve agent. <\/p>\n

The report said preliminary findings show 1,429 people were killed in the attack, including at least 426 children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have no doubt that someone used gas on those people, but what I don’t know is who actually pulled the trigger and what we plan to do about it, and how that intended plan will prevent the next attack, and how will preventing that attack make us safer? these are the same questions that Biden, Kerry and Obama demanded of President Bush, but now they seem less inclined to answer those same questions.<\/p>\n

The Bush Administration took two or three dozens of countries in their coalition, the Obama Administration has only the country that wasn’t in that coalition – France. the Bush Administration couldn’t get approval from the Security Council, and regardless of how the UN inspectors report from Syria, the Obama Administration won’t get the Security Council’s approval either.<\/p>\n

At least Hussein presented a real threat to us by supporting terrorists outside their borders and a real threat to the UN pilots enforcing the no-fly zone. Syria threatens Israel and Turkey, but they don’t have a capability to threaten us.<\/p>\n

If our goal is to merely punish the Assad regime, it goes against the principles of waging war. The purpose of military power is to defeat an enemy, not to spank them and send them to a corner wearing a dunce’s hat.<\/p>\n

Kerry admits that there is no military solution in Syria, yet here he is proposing a military solution. No wonder he missed his opportunity to be President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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