The
world reacted with justified moral indignation to Syria's use of poison gas on
humans. The Obama administration
apparently feels that the USA is therefore morally obligated to attack
Syria. It may at first seem
counter-intuitive, but an ancient Jewish principle is that when one group of
people is being massacred by another group, an unaligned third nation should
NOT dispatch their own soldiers, some of whom will die, in order to save many
more of the victims. Accordingly, America should NOT send even a few of its
soldiers to their deaths in Syria in order to save many more Syrian lives.
Doing so is not morally righteous. [more on 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'...]
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