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Mr. President, Mr. President, Please, another ten minutes, please sir!
Please do NOT attack Syria over the alleged gas attacks. Here’s why:
Let’s do this instead and I am deliberately compromising myself here.
Let’s suggest a trial or series of trials. Speak to the American People and propose this: First, let’s get a new Syrian government. Find out if gas or chemical weapons were used and then determine in a trial who did it and then punish the appropriate parties. Do it like the Nuremberg trials – in the name of the new Syrian government. Have international prosecutors, defense counsel, investigators and judges. I bet a distinguished jurist like say, Judge Merrick Garland, for example, would be an awesome judge for one of these cases or the prosecutor and maybe a few Dems might feel a bit better about the SCOTUS thing if you proposed it. Anybody can be on SCOTUS but who gets to be his generation’s Robert Jackson!
I hate it. I hate the entire idea. But if trials prevent another dictator or rebel group from using chemical weapons it will be worth it.
Now about North Korea? That is, unlike Syria, a imminent threat to the US. But how about that, Mr. President, my ten minutes are nearly up. Why am I speaking out?
When I was Appellate Defender, the US attacked Serbia for no real reason and every day I would listen to public radio and one day I realized: Clinton (President) and Albright were leading us to war with help from folks like Senator McCain. But the Appellate Defender must be above politics (my position) I kept silent.
Not again. Please do not attack Syria. There is a better more fair way to take care of this. Get the war over and a new government in Damascus and then set up the trials. I won’t agree with you all the time but I will have your back. Thanks for your time, again, Mr. President.
UPDATE: Too late. Already done. Let’s hope and pray this is right.
Article written by: Elwood “Sandy” Sanders