Answering a survey by Democracy for America, which asks:
Based on the current situation,
do you support U.S. military intervention in Syria?
Military
action can only make matters worse. As President Obama's interview yesterday
with PBS acknowledged, it offers no solution. We should have learned from Iraq
and Afghanistan (not to mention Vietnam) the terrible cost and ultimate failure
of military intervention in the crises and conflicts of other nations. However
hard and complicated, the only hopeful course is political and diplomatic,
coupled with the full pressure of world opinion and maximum aid to suffering
populations. It's past time to reject the
destructive illusion that bombs can serve humanitarian purposes rather than
exacerbate current political problems and human suffering. Instead of
replicating Bush's "coalition of the willing" for war, we should work
ceaselessly to lessen the impasse with Russia and China and make the UN more
effective.
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