this might be a naive question but why is it a foregone conclusion that it's the US' role to be the one to punish Assad
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this seems to underpin a lot of the justification for the strike, like yes, chemical weapon attacks must be stopped, but why by the US
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ever since Madeleine Albright got us to try out hating and killing ~in a good cause~ we've been unable to think of why we should ever stop
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this is the soul of what people mean when they say neoliberalism, the embrace of empire justified by the power of moral virtue
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if we *can* punish the wicked and we *do not* punish the wicked, are we not ourselves wicked?
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If we can help the innocent & dont help the innocent, we are wicked. Why's it gotta be war all the time?
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if the problem can't be solved by hurting somebody, not only do we not know how to solve it, we don't want to know how to solve it
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