50+ Cruise Missiles just launched and hit Syria

[Antonio the Sixth]

For the record, I fully support this.

I hope my fellow leftists don't go back into full reflexive isolationist mode.

[Antonio the Sixth]

For the record, I fully support this.

I hope my fellow leftists don't go back into full reflexive isolationist mode.

Personally, I'm not opposed to this strike or even similar ones that send the message to al-Assad that chemical attacks are intolerable. However, I'd be adamantly opposed to a full-scale intervention.

We should have gone into it in 2013. You're right that now is probably too late to do much good.

[Antonio the Sixth]

For the record, I fully support this.

I hope my fellow leftists don't go back into full reflexive isolationist mode.

I guess naive leftism really does devolve into neoconservatism in the end - empirical fact exists in the social sciences after all.

Being lectured about naiveté and the empirical foundation of my field of study by an economist is pretty hilarious.