Today the United States condemns the intentional killing of civilians in wartime. So anyone proposing that the United States have another go at it, this time targeting Assad, should think long and hard. When you compare American behavior in Franklin Roosevelt’s day to that of Hitler’s Germany, the balance sheet clearly favors the United States. Yet to compare recent American behavior with that of Angela Merkel’s Germany, not so much. If it chose to do so, the United States could do likewise.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 05, 2017 22:30 UTC