France 'Ready To Punish' Syria Over Gas Attack
Source: Huffington Post
PARIS French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that his country is prepared to take action against those responsible for gassing people in Syria.
"France is ready to punish those who took the heinous decision to gas innocents" in Syria last week, Hollande said at a conference with France's ambassadors. He did not elaborate.
"I have decided to increase our military support to the National Syrian Coalition," the main Syrian opposition group in exile, he also said.
France, one of Europe's biggest military powers, has not specified what preparation it is taking for any possible international action against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/france-syria_n_3823398.html
bowens43
(16,064 posts)JI7
(89,305 posts)I am opposed to the US doing anything.
JI7
(89,305 posts)Lasher
(27,707 posts)Loaded question. I don't think the US should always be the world police force. But there is much more to this than that.
if France wants to volunteer that is their choice as a country.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)What if it was the opposition group that did it.
Come to think of it, France sure does fund a lot of "opposition groups". Hmmmm.
Bragi
(7,650 posts)Assad kills people at will using good old bullets and bombs. Why would he bother with chemical weapons? And for that matter, why is killing tens of thousands the old fashioned way less reprehensible than using chemical weapons. None of this adds up to much more than the usual deranged warmongering.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)But yet we aren't even discussing the root cause of this. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey which are openly waging aggression against other countries.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Nerve agent was apparently used to break that stalemate and gain an advantage.
Bragi
(7,650 posts)I don't understand why provoking outside military intervention helps him in any way. Seriously, how does triggering outside intervention help him stay in power? What's the logic here?
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)As the world cries in outrage after the US blows up 5 chemical factories Assad can make the final push to decimate the anti-government factions. The world media would be focused on the US and would blame the US for any post-strike atrocities.
This is already played out, I think.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)ALERT THE MEDIA!
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Well by all means Little Johnny, share with the class. We are all ears.
Waiting...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)VP Biden used the word 'heinous', too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014577636
David__77
(23,677 posts)No one would dare say this about N. Korea. I hope that Syria reveals the means to deter this idiocy, or Russia makes clear that there will be consequences. That's the only way to maintain peace so it seems.
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)Or did they run out of those? Believe it or not, Hollande and his fellow war criminals are also in possession of some "Peace Prize". I guess they just hand those out to anybody these days.
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