Maybe after we get some boots on the ground in Syria we can find SS Lieutenant Alois Brunner

[Hubert Flottz]

Syria Sheltering War Criminals? Not the First Time

http://wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-04-syria.php

Alois Brunner would be 101 years old now, but he is still the number one most wanted Nazi war criminal.

[Tx4obama]

1. We did not put boots on the ground in LIBYA and we will NOT put any in Syria either.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. We might not get so lucky next time.

Washington has cried wolf so many times the people aren't so easy to take the bait.

[FarCenter]

5. Well, there were all those CIA and SOC operatives in Benghazi...

[David__77]

9. Nope, the US will leave the new Hitler in power. Obama will fail the Munich test.

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[Hubert Flottz]

2. I wonder if this is where the scientists who made the Syrian nerve gas came from?

Syria Sheltering War Criminals? Not the First Time

Snip...

Pell turned to a Jewish activist group, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe (better known as the Bergson group), to help him publicize the scandal. The ensuing controversy embarrassed the State Department into reversing its position and agreeing to prosecute Nazi murderers of Jews.

But after the war ended, many U.S. officials regarded the prosecution of Nazi war criminals as less of a priority than building relations with postwar West Germany. As a result, many of the less-prominent war criminals were let off with minor penalties or not prosecuted at all. In addition, some U.S. government agencies considered former Nazis to be potentially useful allies in the Cold War. Many of them, including some known war criminals, were hired for U.S. military and intelligence purposes in Europe or even brought to the United States.

Given this postwar atmosphere of setting aside the pursuit of justice for the sake of other considerations, it is hardly surprising that the U.S. never took any serious steps --such as economic or diplomatic pressure-- to secure Syria's surrender of Nazi war criminals for prosecution. Improving American relations with the Arab world was considered a higher priority than bringing Alois Brunner and other murderers to justice.

A similar dilemma may now arise as the U.S. government ponders how to respond to Syria's sheltering of Iraqi war criminals. Some in the administration are reportedly uneasy over Congressional efforts to impose sanctions on the Damascus regime, arguing that friendly relations with Syria are more important than the capture of Saddam's deputies and military scientists. Will politics again triumph over justice?

http://wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-04-syria.php

[Link Speed]

3. Interesting paragraph from article

"U.S. government policy regarding Nazi war criminals was, from its earliest days, marked by a certain ambivalence. In 1942, President Roosevelt publicly pledged that Nazi war criminals would be punished, and the following year, the Allies established the United Nations War Crimes Commission. But the State Department wanted to limit postwar trials to those war crimes that had been committed against Allied forces, arguing that there was no legal basis to prosecute war criminals whose victims were citizens of Axis-occupied countries--chiefly the Jews."

I had never heard of that. Interesting, in today's light.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Right, so why the beating of the war drums now?

All of a sudden we are the worldwide do-gooder police? We can't afford to honor Medicare or Social Security, but we can afford another war in the twinkling of an eye.

[Link Speed]

7. This whole thing smells bad

There must be some tremendous weight pressuring this.

Maybe a Iran/Iraq/Syria pipeline? Maybe for BP/Exxon/Mobil? Or, maybe, add a Saudi/Iraq/Syrian line (see: Prince Bandar).

Won't have to worry about those pesky straits and oil tankers, ever again.

[Nevernose]

8. Maybe it's not even that nefarious

When you go to generals of advice on world affairs, they always come back with the same answer: state-sanctioned violence. It's the old "if all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" thing.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. The US invading any other country in the Middle East is...

like throwing water on a gasoline fire, it just spreads the fire.(that fire = hatred) Americans don't even trust our own government anymore, because they lie to us and to congress and they spy on little girl's slumber parties. I guess with this new war will come the NSA's need for "Sweeping New Powers" to bug our crappers.

[David__77]

10. Brunner is not alive.

It's been a few years. Did he get a public funeral? Of course not.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. The bad guys might be keeping him alive with machines?

Maybe they burned the body? Poetic Justice?