Posted on 04/07/2017 1:50:02 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Russian President Vladimir Putin would do well to act cautiously. He is no longer dealing with weak-kneed Barack Obam,a who drew red lines but did not follow through. President Trump has demonstrated that he does mean what he says
On April 4th dozens of people, including children, died in a horrific way as a result of a chemical attack in a northern rebel-held area of Syria. Intelligence sources point to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad as responsible for the attack, which was carried out by relatively sophisticated aircraft and followed up by an air attack on a hospital treating the wounded. The United States, the United Kingdom and France promptly called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to consider a draft resolution condemning the attack and demanding a thorough impartial investigation by the UN’s Joint Investigative Mechanism. Russia balked at such a resolution, and, along with the Syrian regime itself, blamed terrorists for the attack. More than a day of negotiations in an attempt to reach agreement on a consensus resolution proved to be futile. On Thursday evening, President Trump decided to launch a missile attack against the airbase within Syria said to have been the staging ground from where the chemical attack was launched. President Trump had declared his red line just the day before and, unlike former President Barack Obama, swiftly followed through with a narrowly targeted, proportionate attack to deter Assad from any further use of deadly chemical weapons.
The President don’t need the U N’s approval to be an international judge, jury, and executioner.
Heck. He or she doesn’t even need Congress.
Damn straight. President Trump is all action while Obummer took his foreign policy cues from Bugs Bunny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkzWyOaS8kU
The Dems delighted because it diverts attention from Susan Rice.
Waiting for that emergency wrist slap, are we?
Wake Up.....Russia has veto power.
I was just getting used to be a nationalist.
Now we are all interventionists again.
Who knew that electing a president with no firm ideology would be this complicated?
We need to love this intervention and escalation because it says FU to UN and is NOT Obama? Give me a break! This is Bush redeux. It did not work before;it will not work now. This is not MAGA. Sealing the borders (WALL) and enforcing immigration law can go much further than lobbing cruise missiles. Why poke a hornets nest for no reason? Why start a fight when it is unnecessary?
Biggest advantage, World will treat him like a world leader.
NATO will be very happy to pay fair share.
NK and Mexico will behave.
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