Let's get something straight about the US bombing and or striking Syria. The US has been bombing *the absolute crap* out of Syria for years. It just hasn't been attacking Assad. (Though there was recently a pretty damn deadly skirmish w Russian mercenaries supporting Assad)
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Those bombing raids in Syria have resulted in thousands of civilian casualties. Civilian casualty rates were distressingly high under Obama but have, according to all indications, accelerated markedly under Trump.
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In fact, the acceleration of bombing and civilian casualties in Syria, is in line with a broader trend: in basically every theatre of US military activity - Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan - Trump has increased deadly strikes, while relaxing rules of engagement.
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In other words Trump has *already been waging deadly war in the middle east*. Since the day he took office! So if you're preening about your "anti-war" position because you don't want Trump to strike Assad, but ***have been silent*** about all that, then you're not "anti-war"
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And the idea that the opposition to strikes against Assad is such a defining moral question it excuses explicitly joining forces with reactionaries and white nationalists, is, to my mind, misguided, to put it mildly.
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Okay, now say “Let this blood be on our hands and on our children’s”
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