Dead is dead, unless you've been gassed to death, then it's much worse

More than 100,000 Japanese died in the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945.  During ten days in 1994, between 500,000 to one million Tutsis were hacked to death by Hutus in Rwanda.  In Egyptian there is an ongoing genocide of Christians.  Before chemical weapons were used in Syria, over 100,000 people had already been killed in the civil war there.

Let’s try a bit of mental gymnastics this morning.  Does it really make a difference what kind of horrible death you suffer?  Is it better to be burned alive, hacked to death, raped and tortured to death or gassed?  Does it really make sense to go war because 1,400 Syrians were killed in a particularly cruel manner?  Not that they were killed mind you.  That’s been going on for over two years without so much as a peep from King Golfs-a-lot, but because they were killed using a particular weapon.

Honestly, it doesn’t matter to me.  If you are going to tolerate Egyptians terrorizing Christians without a word of protest and even continued US funding of the effort, it’s hard for me to get worked up over the use of chem weapons in Syria.  As an aside, I don’t believe one word from anyone in this administration about who was responsible for the use of the weapons.  Sadly, I have as much confidence in the Russian take on this as anything coming from King Golfs-a-lot or his merry band of lying, cowardly SFB Secs.

But if you want to go bomb Assad and kill him, his deputies and lay waste to as much of his military as possible, I’d probably support that effort as a matter of fact, as long as it targets the leadership directly.

Unlike King Golfs-a-lot and his know-nothings, I happen to know that whatever is accomplished over a few days of bombing will be undone over a few weeks and months when the bombing stops.  I also know something King Golfs-a-lot and his Special High Intensity Trained Staff (or $H!T Staff), have apparently forgotten, in war the other guy gets a vote.

A couple weeks of after the bombing stops, Assad gets to do something.  It won’t be pleasant.  It’ll probably spark the need for King Golfs-a-lot to beg the international community and congress for another go ahead to escalate the matter.

If I were King for a day, I’d ignore Syria and ask for a resolution to bomb Iran for the next 10 years.

Also, is it stated in the treaty we signed against the use of chem weapons that we would go to war against anyone who might use them?  I don’t know and I am too lazy to wade through 1,500 pages of legalize to find out, but I doubt it.  So, just because you are a signatory against the use of such weapons, doesn’t mean you declare war on everyone who does.

Oh, and King Golfs-a-lot said he didn’t draw the red line.  He also denied ever saying the Cambridge cops “acted stupidly.”  This is why I have less than zero confidence in anything this bunch of lying sac-O-craps have to say about chem weapons or anything else.  They just lie all the time.

Again, Assad should just blame the whole thing on a misunderstanding over You Tube video and ask “what difference, at this point, does it make?”  I think given that scenario, King Golfs-a-lot would be left no choice but to say, “Well, all righty then.”