DEFINITION OF SUCCESSFUL MISSILE ATTACK AGAINST SYRIA

The media insist Obama is starting a “war” with Syria. I don’t know about you but for me a state of war refers to a “period” of armed conflict between two sovereign nations or two armed factions within one nation and not just an act of war. The attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was an act of war but it was not he war. An act of aggression against Syria’s al Assad is not a war. It may turn into a war but it is not a war. A drone attack in Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, or Somalia is an act of war that may turn into a war. Drone attacks are not meant to be dramatic or make a point; they are intended to be effective drawing as little attention as possible.

This leaves open the question, “What would it take to have a war between Syria or any of these other countries and the United States?” In my mind, there is only one scenario possible that punishment for using illegal weapons in the form of a missile strike could lead us into the nastiness of war and that would be if we landed troops in those countries making it a war. Israel could have a war with Syria over a common boarder. They, like is the case between North and South Korea, have massive amounts of firepower pointed at one another, which is a deterrent for war. Basher al Assad more than likely would not want that to happen while he is in a desperate contest fighting to survive in his own country. The prediction is that he will stop the gassings but do nothing in retaliation against the United States until he wins or is in the same situation that Hitler found himself in that Berlin bunker.

If there is a missile strike, forever after, so that George W. Bush doesn’t look so bad the Republicans will insist that Obama started an unfunded “war”.  To disgorge their revulsion for violence, progressive critics will insist that Obama started and unjust “war”.  Of course, some people such as Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum who wanted to be president will insist we should, “praise the load and pass the ammunition” so we can remain free of Sheira Law. That is the kind of thing these people warn us is looming over our United States court system; at least it was until North Carolina passed thier pitifully stupid law making Sharia Law illegal. These folks are in a fight to protect their blind Christian faith against what they see as the evils of blind Islamic faith. When we think of what might have been, presidential elections can sometimes give some of us nervous breakdowns.

Those of us who see a missile strike as a punishing act aggression, corporal punishment equivalent to a spanking, will see a missile strike as a successful event and another reason to see Obama as a decisive and successful president. 

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