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Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed
Posted: Sep 4, 2013
with one "present" vote, authorizing limited miltary action. It authorizes up to 90 days of military action and bars troop deployment. The White House is required to send lawmakers a plan for diplomatic solution to violence in Syria within 30 days of resolution enactment. They rejected Rand Paul's effort to impose further restrictions on the War Powers Act by a 14-4 vote.
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Why don't we use the International Criminal - Court!?!
[ In Reply To ..]Aaaaaarg!
It was created for just these situations!
I do want us to help in any way we can in Syria, and I think that's the only way we can do it without creating more chaos.
I don't understand.
That would be great. It seems that Syria did not sign - the ICC's founding treaty, so technically
[ In Reply To ..]can argue that it's not bound by it.
The UN could act under other law but won't be able to since Russia and China back Syria for various reasons that have nothing to do with approving genocide.
Then there are all the practical impediments to seizing a national leader and putting him on trial. George W. Bush is considered guilty around the planet of international crimes by ordering the use torture, but we did not arrest and deliver him to the ICC or U.N. for trial. And never will.
But I agree, putting Assad in jail and on trial for murder would be wonderful. There's a type of mindset that will make excuses for murderers who are going free but starts disapproving of them strongly once authority arrests them. THEN they become criminals to those minds. Whatever it takes.
Thanks for the explanation. I am just so - flabbergasted that it is easier
[ In Reply To ..]to bomb a country than to take its leader to court. It just feels...wrong.
Yes, sad so much easier to bomb and kill innocent - people than arrest a criminal leader. But,
[ In Reply To ..]we are all sovereign nations. There is no world government, which is what would be required, and you wouldn't need to use any fingers at all to count the percentage of humanity who would want that. So there we are.
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