here we go again...

We shall see (if President Obama actually authorizes a military strike) if such a strike has a "dissuasion value." I think it very likely will not, but a strike, a hard, extremely violent, and vicious strike, must be made. Bashar al-Assad has been terrorizing his own people for far too long. He doesn't deserve to survive.

The canard, "If we break it, we own it," is nonsense. If a military strike is made, chaos and an intensifying of the Syrian civil war will likely ensue. So be it. Syria will be no worse off than it is now and has been for some time. Yes, innocents will die. But they've been dying ever since Syria's civil war began.

Moreover, Syria has been a thorn in the flesh of Lebanon for years. The only thing Bashar al-Assad--and other MIddle Eastern dictators--understands is brute military force. If his regime falls, so what?

I'm with Hollande and other hawks, for once. As Curtis LeMay said about Vietnam--I didn't agree at the time--we should bomb Syria back into the Stone Age.