Trump’s bombardment in Syria was crazy because it had no good political purpose. No head of any government should commit willy nilly an act of war against a sovereign state. President Trump blew up an airfield in Syria for the abstract moral reason that a legally-elected dictator was continuing to kill his own citizens in a civil war and now every Syrian citizen is fully justified morally in waging war against America and Americans. For what reason did he put us in this position and how do we respond to our Syrian enemies when they attack us? Can we say that we bombed their airfield for them? If that was the purpose, then we are committed morally to invading Syria and changing its political leader as we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. If President Trump does not conduct all out war against Syria to remove its leader, then his bombardment was simply crazy. If he does go to war, he risks war with Russia since it has military forces in Syria allied with it. A crazy act could have a crazy and deadly development.
Instead of shooting bombs for no good reason at sovereign states, President Trump should start acting sanely and send them democracy. Instead of risking war with Russia, he should get rid of the economic sanctions against it. More globalism and free capitalistic activities in Russia will weaken its dictator’s power. Trump and his Republican majority in Congress have the right under Article IV Section 3 of the Constitution to admit new states to out American union of 50 states. Offer American statehood to Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and to any other former Russian colonies that wish it. Offer it to Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan too and to any other states worldwide that want it. The only goal that is both sane and good for American foreign diplomacy is worldwide democracy and universal human rights guaranteed in every state anywhere. They would be much more powerful bombs than the ones President Trump delivered to Syria for no rational purpose.
Daniel McNeill
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