Would not bombing Syria send a message that the US is weak?

Or maybe even dropping an atomic bomb on Japan. The whole "we can have WMDs, but you can't" attitude is rather arrogant. If WMDs are bad, we should dismantle our own.

Want the truth?

The 'next 500 years of world' Pentagon program came out with a printout saying ...

Syria Another VIetnam or even worse

Saudis jumping into fray

North Korea blocks Japanese ports.

Venezuela marches into Mexico.

Russia nukes Greenland - ice melts.

Iran capture Af to march into Pakistan.

Satellite pictures show dark cloud over Israel.

Obama the protege and Bush the patron trainer fainted.

some people are not exactly logical. The very same action or lack of action can be interpreted or twisted many ways

dont bomb syria and some people mihgt interpret it as weak and would inspire them to get chemical weapons

bomb syria and some people will call for revenge attacks on the USA

damned if you do, damned if you dont

NOT bombing Syria would send a message that the United States is not a bloodthirsty rabid dog looking for any kind of easy conquest it can come across. NOT bombing Syria would have a much smaller chance of nerve gas falling into al-Qaeda hands.

Anyone who hates us enough to consider using NBC weapons will not be deterred by any message Obama sends now. The message needed to be sent by Aug 24th and Assad needed a Tomahawk enema right then and there. War criminals deserve neither time nor mercy.

THAT's how you send a deterrent message. Anything else means the aggressor/user has every chance to scurry away unharmed. To strike again.

In fact, accepting Russia's solution leaves the war criminal unscathed and un-chastened. I bet Obama and Kerry also agreed to never strike Syria/Assad as their end of the "bargain."

No, the threat of bombing was real, and enough to scare Syria and make their backer Russia nervous.

Russia signed The CWC so could not interfere with any actions against Syria.

It is political suicide for republicans if we are attacked by people from Syria, only this time it could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. Bush did not get blamed for 911 safety failure so Obama won't if we get Syria 911.

When slick willy didn't respond after the World Trade Towers were Bombed in 1993. That made American weak.

News Flash: that "message" was already out there. Walking away from Iraq and giving it to Iran sent that message. Not acting decisively two years ago sent that message. Not acting decisively when the gas attack sent that message. Dithering around while Putin pulls the rug out from underneath your big speech....message received, 5 by 5, LOL.

Obama has already sent that message by simply being in the White House.

no not on america!! not bombing syria only means we arent acting like a ref in a place where its non of our busniess to manage in the first place!! if syria was doing something bad to america and we didnt do anything then yes, but they arent so no