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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So . . . by fighting back and killing a good chunk of the Syrian population, we'll end the use of chemical weapons like Sarin?

makes total sense to me, Pee-wee

quote=Anonymous]I have gone back and forth, and I think the answer is that we have to respond, not for the sake of Syria, [b]but because chemical weapons deterrence depends upon it.[/b]

The only way that we keep chemical weapons out of the equation of war is to punish everyone who uses it.  We were wrong to ignore it in Iraq in the 80's and if we let it go again, everyone facing civil war is going to use it when desperate.

Deterrence has to be backed up to have power, even if it brings no one peace.[/quote][/quote]

If you want to belittle the strategies that have kept the most horrific weapons off the battlefield and population centers, so be it.  No one likes having to enforce a ban, but the only way to prevent the use of such weapons as nerve gas or nuclear bombs is an iron clad guarantee that the world community will punish those who use them.  Every nation possessing or attempting to possess these weapons is watching to see how the world responds.

FWIW I don't think we have to kill a significant chunk of the population in order to retaliate.  We don't need to win a war, only to take out enough of Assad's military capability.[/quote]

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