Editor,
It’s obvious that Kerry’s thinking is severely flawed. Sure, Syria might have used chemical weapons on their own people, and sure that would be a terrible thing. But it’s not America’s duty, or right, to go in their and punish them. The Syrians should be allowed to handle it internally.
Let me try to illustrate this with an analogy. The Oklahoma bombing was a terrible, tragic event. I don’t want to trivialize it at all. But what would have happened if, say, China or Russia or some other country with a big military force decided to bomb Oklahoma just to “teach those Americans not to bomb each other any more”? The American military machine would have gone apoplectic – that much is guaranteed.
Marc
