President Obama Addresses the Nation on Syria - President Obama FULL SPEECH 9/10/2013

[Spitfire of ATJ]

[Kolesar]

1. Text through WaPO

Many of you have asked a broader question: Why should we get involved at all in a place that’s so complicated and where, as one person wrote to me, those who come after Assad may be enemies of human rights?

It’s true that some of Assad’s opponents are extremists. But Al Qaida will only draw strength in a more chaotic Syria if people there see the world doing nothing to prevent innocent civilians from being gassed to death.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/running-transcript-president-obamas-sept-10-speech-on-syria/2013/09/10/a8826aa6-1a2e-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_story_2.html

[Fearless]

2. When has our intervention done anything but cause more chaos?

[Kolesar]

11. Operation Torch, Sicily, Anzio, Normandy: my father was in three of those and didn't regret it

The Italian citizens were starving because the occupying Nazis did not provide them with anything to eat.

[Fearless]

12. So the best we've got is more than 65 years ago?

Oh joy. Versus: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan I, Afghanistan II, Iraq I and II, intervention in innumerable South American nations, Cuba, and so on and so forth.

The difference might be that we didn't become involved in a sectarian civil war but repelled a foreign power out of a nation, ie. a clear goal.

[Kolesar]

13. I'm real good at history

I was ranked statewide when our senior class took this competitive exam

Oh joy, indeed!

[Sand Wind]

3. +1

[rocktivity]

4. How is our government bombing Syrians a favorable alternative their government gassing them?

And wouldn't they be more inclined to blame us for it rather than Assad or Al Qaida?


rocktivity

[Pharaoh]

5. Sounds like Iraq WMD

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[Tx4obama]

6. The beginning of the first sentence is missing in the video.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. How's this?

[delrem]

8. Too many contradictions.

Both contradictions regarding fact and internal contradiction regarding the US international role, and the President's role vis-a-vis congress and the people.

This doesn't bode well, regardless of our sudden hope.

[Iliyah]

9. Lets put it firmly

You Assad is targeted.

[delrem]

10. Well, such an "it" obviously comes from someone's ass.

[MVNGFWD2013]

14. Hegemony

We on the left opposed the Iraq invasion for good reason, and this Syria situation reminds of that whole lead up to war to overthrow Saddam...and the same could be said of when we took out Qaddafi. What is with our brutal hegemony in the Middle East???

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. "What is with our brutal hegemony in the Middle East???"

I hear it's about a bunch of people who don't believe in Jesus.

Using the logic we've seen lately that means they MUST be Satan Worshippers.

Right?