More Syria commentary in today’s On the Square , when Elizabeth Scalia returns today “to pray that if we must err, we err on the side of life”:
There are no good options, or easy answers, to the Syrian problem. Assad may be a fiend, but even the president admits that he poses no imminent threat to the United States, which is one reason Obama has given for seeking the approval of Congress before he orders a punitive three-day air strike meant, mostly, to signal to Assad that the use of chemical weapons in war will not be tolerated.
Read the rest here .
Did anybody watch Assad’s interview last night? CBS only seems to be streaming clips of it for now.
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