Business Insider brought my attention to this NPR interview with a man who lost 11 family members in Syria’s recent chemical weapon strikes. Almost nothing is made plain in the interview. The man’s family doesn’t know whether the attacks were delivered by Assad’s forces or rebels. He doesn’t believe the US should strike Syria, but he does think “America should stand in the middle and stop the fighting” somehow. The only thing that is clear in the interview is the fact that people die whether the weapons used are chemical or conventional.

3 replies on ““I Don’t See a Difference…To Me, All Weapons Kill.””

  1. I know PC doesn’t read this, and I don’t care what his opinion is anyway. I’d like to hear from someone else in the “chemical weapons don’t matter” camp.

    Assume we have irrefutable proof that Assad gassed 1,000 civilians to death (or 1% of the 100,000 Syrian dead). Assume Russia/China will block any UN action.

    What should be the world’s response to the gassing and why?

  2. The only reliable reports to date concerning the atrocities in Syria are of the American-backed Syrian rebels butchering Syrian Christian villages. That and at least two confirmed reports that it was in fact the rebels that had access to, and have used chemical weapons in the last two years.

    No proof, only Obama’s whim……

    But I’m sure there’s no ulterior motive in using the US governments weapons that kill over in Syria. Nah, there never is: http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-bus…

  3. Let’s take a moment to consider what will happen if there is a Western military strike against Syria, shall we?

    The Sunni/Shia civil war in Iraq, already extremely bloody, will engulf almost all of Iraq. Hizbollah and Hamas will be targeted in Lebanon. Syria will attack Israel. Israel will respond. Turkey will be attacked. Egypt will explode into unrecognizable chaos. Iran will step in with Russia and China as secure backstops.

    Every simmering feud between sects and tribes will come to the surface in what this really is, a mad scramble for diminishing resources, and price of oil will explode to new all time highs shutting down the world economy.

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