Just arrest Assad and anyone else responsible for the chemical attack

[fried eggs]

Strikes won't solve anything if Assad gets to watch from the safety of his mansion. Not to mention innocent civilians who might get caught in the crossfire. Either attempt to arrest the person responsible or don't bother. By the way, I thought we were broke?

[eridani]

1. How about arresting Bush and Cheney instead? n/t

[delrem]

9. no shit but the hypocrisy is staggering.

[NutmegYankee]

2. Are you volunteering for that suicide mission?

How exactly would we arrest the leader of a country who commands an entire army that can protect him? And how would that effort not be a war?

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. You musta been hanging out at FreeRepublic again...

cause having high debt is not broke. I have debt...but I still have money coming in...so I am not broke...The Govt has money coming in...in fact even more money coming in as the deficit has be greatly reduced. I suggest a stiff drink and possibly a nap.

[quinnox]

4. How and under what authority

He is the leader of a sovereign country. The USA is not in charge of all the worlds leaders, despite the fact that it often acts like it.

[Incitatus]

5. And what if Assad is calling the shots from inside Iran?

Simply arresting him if he was somewhere in Syria would be a huge problem.

[Billy Love]

6. Arrest the PNAC signatories.

And throw them in prison for a very long time. No parole. No favors. No pardons. They stay there until their skeletons have skeletons.

[Recursion]

7. What, send in the local magistrate?

Umm...

[rrneck]

8. Go get him tiger.

[David__77]

10. There is no legal basis for that whatsoever.

We had all sorts of things, from the Treaty of Westphalia onward, to develop a system of sovereign states at peace in the world. To go and attempt to decapitate this or that state will put us in a new dark ages.