04-10-2017, 11:17 PM
So what would a President Hillary Clinton have done? I am not sure that she would have successfully deterred butcher Assad from using chemical weapons -- but she would have been in a better position to isolate the Demon of Damascus. She would likely have told President Putin and Iranian leadership that they might want to pull their citizens away from anything that might be involved in the gassing of helpless people, and that we would give all logistical support necessary for extraction of their own people. Just because Saddam Hussein got away with the al-Anfal campaign when he did it. does not mean that Bashir Assad gets to do so this time. Iraqi officials such as "Chemical Ali" were hanged for gassing the Kurds, which should be a fair warning.
...Before anyone thinks that as a physician Bashir Assad is somehow above this...
http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Claus_Schilling
...Before anyone thinks that as a physician Bashir Assad is somehow above this...
Quote:(Doctor Claus) Schilling returned to Germany after a meeting with Leonardo Conti, the Nazis' Health Chief, in 1941, and by early 1942 he was provided with a special malaria research station at Dachau's concentration camp by Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS. Despite negative assessments from colleagues, Schilling would remain in charge of the malaria station for the duration of the war.[1]
Although in the 1930s Schilling had stressed the point that malaria research on human subjects could be performed in an entirely harmless fashion, the Dachau subjects included experimentees who were injected with synthetic drugs at doses ranging from high to lethal. Of the more than 1,000 prisoners used in the malaria experiments at Dachau during the war, between 300 and 400 died as a result; among survivors, a substantial number remained permanently damaged afterward.[1]
In the course of the Dachau Trials following the liberation of the camp at the close of the war, Schilling was tried by an American tribunal, with an October 1945 affidavit from Schilling being presented in the proceedings.[2]
The tribunal sentenced Schilling to death by hanging on December 13, 1945. His execution took place at Landsberg Prison in Landsberg am Lech on May 28, 1946.
http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Claus_Schilling
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.