American People Making It Clear To THEIR REPRESENTATIVES They Do NOT Want War With Syria!

[avaistheone1]

[highprincipleswork]

1. Now if we only had a representative democracy all would be well.

[EverGreenie]

2. Making it clear like they did re: the Axis prior to Pearl Harbor?

The American Majority: Only when our own interests are at stake. How noble!

A vast majority of Americans opposed intervention in Libya as well, despite 75% of Libyans supporting that intervention.
At some point in history a majority of Americans have opposed abolition, women's suffrage, gay rights, etc.
Citing the opinion of the American majority does not speak to the merits of a proposition.
Populism is not a political principle, it's the total absence of political principles.

We decided the law on these types of war crimes a century ago. Let's not allow the past to be repeated.

Let's be informed and principled progressives, not casually-interested armchair populists.

[highprincipleswork]

3. Not exactly the same situation though, is it now?

Informed? Do you believe anybody is fully informed even about who committed these atrocities?

Beyond that, it does not follow that we the United States are meant to be judge and jury of international war crimes.

Wouldn't you agree with that, as an informed point of view?

[delrem]

4. WOOOO! your first post, a beautiful hippie-bashing poster! Love it, EverGreenie.

[MNBrewer]

5. Like my dear old mom always said

Two wrongs don't make a right. Enjoy your stay at DU.

[JoeyT]

6. We decided the law on war crimes a century ago,

then happily declared they totally don't apply to anything we do.

Striking military assets aren't a war crime. Torture is a war crime. Hitting civilians with white phosphorus is a war crime. We not only don't mind those, we protect the people that committed them.

I'd echo the "Enjoy your stay", but we seem to be getting a lot of new posters whose only goal seems to be to scream about how awful liberals are.

[gopiscrap]

8. Welcome to DU

[AnotherMcIntosh]

7. In 2008, the American people made it clear to our Reps that we did not want more war.

We elected Obama and the Congressional elections turned into a rout.

Obama and our elected Representatives in Congress knew it at the time. It was in the news.

And yet, here we are once again.

Unless the Republicans really join in blocking this, and the support for war by Pelosi et al., I wouldn't place too much stock in our own party's Representatives stopping this.

There's too much money to be made. There are too many opportunities to point out, "But, but, the Republicans are worse."

[gopiscrap]

9. I agree