France 'Ready To Punish' Syria Over Gas Attack

[onehandle]

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]

1. ok we have a volunteer, let's sit this one out for a change

[JI7]

4. so you are just opposed to the US doing anything ?

[Lasher]

5. I am.

I am opposed to the US doing anything.

[JI7]

17. but you would be ok with France or another country doing something ?

[Lasher]

18. Doing what? On account of what? To achieve what?

Loaded question. I don't think the US should always be the world police force. But there is much more to this than that.

[Harmony Blue]

6. Yes

if France wants to volunteer that is their choice as a country.

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Count me in the group, too. nt

[Nuclear Unicorn]

16. I'm opposed to the US playing errand boy for Hollande's pretentious moralizing

[Arctic Dave]

2. And yet again, no proof.

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]

9. What would Assad gain using chemical weapons?

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]

11. It is warmongering.

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]

12. Assad is at a military stalemate using "good old bullets and bombs."

Nerve agent was apparently used to break that stalemate and gain an advantage.

[Bragi]

15. How did it give him any advantage?

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]

19. Shock and awe.

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]

13. Anonymous internet poster claims no proof.

ALERT THE MEDIA!

[Arctic Dave]

14. Oh! So you are saying you have it?

Well by all means Little Johnny, share with the class. We are all ears.


Waiting...

[KamaAina]

3. He's reading directly off the fax from Washington

VP Biden used the word 'heinous', too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014577636

[David__77]

7. France, proving why countries should want nukes.

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]

8. Shouldn't France be invading another West African nation again soon?

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.