Opinion Stories from September 9, 2013 (Change date)
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Let’s aid the poor, not spend money on bombsSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - I am so disappointed. We are actually thinking about bombing another country. Spending billions of dollars for bombs when we can’t finance our own country. Our schools a...
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Price must be paid for chemical weapons useSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - As a Vietnam veteran, I have seen the results of war up close and personal. The impact of war is indescribable to those who have not seen it. As a result I absolutely ab...
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Chemicals weren’t used against U.S. citizensSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - I do not support U.S. military action of any sort in Syria. While use of chemical warfare is horrible, it was not used against U.S. citizens so does not warrant any reta...
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Perhaps a naval blockade is in orderSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - If a member of Congress must support the notion that military action is necessary to stop the use of chemical weapons in Syria, it follows that the U.S. must neutralize ...
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Once again, Obama late on his decisionSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - President Obama again is late on decision making, as with Benghazi, with his church in Chicago and when he was an Illinois senator. Now he can blame Syria on Congress. W...
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Assad wouldn’t have used chemical weaponsSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - I voted for Barack Obama the first time because John McCain wanted to start a war with Iran. I voted for Barack Obama the second time because Mitt Romney’s foreign polic...
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Mideast nations must find their own solutionsSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - Don’t! Don’t! Don’t! We attack. They counterattack. What do we do then? Seems like another war, doesn’t it? Let the Mideast find its own solutions for a change. Mr. and...
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We can’t afford to be world’s policeSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - As one who is ex-military and usually hawkish, I oppose any commitment of American blood or treasure toward the Syrian civil war. Nothing I’ve yet read or heard leads me...
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Let’s not get burned a third timeSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - “Once burned, twice careful.” So the saying goes. Actually, the United States has been twice burned (Iraq and Afghanistan), with virtually nothing to show for the money ...
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Conventional warfare can be equally destructiveSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - After 100,000 deaths in the Syrian civil war, why has this government now entered the fray after suspicions that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons to kill ...