Posted on 04/06/2017 1:26:14 PM PDT by markomalley
According to the mainstream media – that has been wrong about almost everything for a solid 18 months in a row – the Syrian government allegedly bombed its own people with a nerve agent.
The reason the Assad government would bomb its own people with a nerve agent right now is obvious. Syrian President Assad – who has been fighting for his life for several years, and is only lately feeling safer – suddenly decided to commit suicide-by-Trump. Because the best way to make that happen is to commit a war crime against your own people in exactly the way that would force President Trump to respond or else suffer humiliation at the hands of the mainstream media.
And how about those pictures coming in about the tragedy. Lots of visual imagery. Dead babies. It is almost as if someone designed this “tragedy” to be camera-ready for President Trump’s consumption. It pushed every one of his buttons. Hard. And right when things in Syria were heading in a positive direction.
I’m going to call bullshit on the gas attack. It’s too “on-the-nose,” as Hollywood script-writers sometimes say, meaning a little too perfect to be natural. This has the look of a manufactured event.
My guess is that President Trump knows this smells fishy, but he has to talk tough anyway. However, keep in mind that he has made a brand out of not discussing military options. He likes to keep people guessing. He reminded us of that again yesterday, in case we forgot.
So how does a Master Persuader respond to a fake war crime?
He does it with a fake response, if he’s smart.
Watch now as the world tries to guess where Trump is moving military assets, and what he might do to respond. The longer he drags things out, the less power the story will have on the public. We’ll be wondering for weeks when those bombs will start hitting Damascus, and Trump will continue to remind us that he doesn’t talk about military options.
Then he waits for something bad to happen to Assad’s family, or his generals, in the normal course of chaos over there. When that happens on its own, the media will wonder if it was Trump sending a strong message to Assad in a measured way. Confirmation bias will do the rest.
There is also a non-zero chance that Putin just asked Assad to frame one of his less-effective Syrian generals for going rogue with chemical weapons, and executing him just to calm things down.
I don’t think we’ll ever know what’s going on over there. But I think we can rule out the idea that Assad decided to commit suicide-by-Trump.
I would tend to lend credence to the possibility that a Syrian or Russian air strike hit an al Qaeda related chem weapons dump .
Assad could not be so stupid as to launch a chem weapons strike shortly after Trump suggested that perhaps he could stay on as a resolution to the Syrian conflict .
RU should release their weapons systems targeting vids , showing the secondaries
putin coming to the white house with a real dossier might be forthcoming.
Yesterday, another freeper posted a saved tweet by a syrian ‘rebel’ about the gas attack and how they will use it for propaganda purposes. Only problem is that the time-stamp on the tweet was before the actual gas attack.
I saw that picture of the “grieving father of twins” and thought why do those babies have Yazidi hair colors.
I think they gassed Yazidi captives and manufactured the the narrative.
From what I’ve read on this subject I’m inclined to agree with Scott Adam’s assessment.
I’m quite certain President Trump gets much better information than we in the general publicsphere.
Boy, I hope Adams is right. Again.
This was camera ready. Wifi is still very good in worn torn country, Doctor was busy making video. More like a Homeland last season.
Smells like rotten rat.
I agree. This Syria WMD attack is a trap for President Trump and to get the a majority of Americans off Obama & his Admin. off the spying scandal of Americans. Deep state is weaponized and politicized pro-Obama.
Time to call the Russians and fine out what they know about this attack.
Adams has nailed it!
The bigger question in this “who did what. Who cares?
every time we go into the middle east its because of some fake crisis. Was Khadafi a real threat to anyone? Why dont we let the people of that region handle their own problems?
How about the thousands of our killed and wounded warriors?
That to me is the real crises!
Looks to me instead like something perfectly designed to get Trump and the US attacking someone else’s enemy for them.
After reading Mr. Adams’ thoughts, I feel more comfortable discussing my observations of the two pictures of grieving children I’ve seen.
They had no tears in their eyes!
I looked at one of a teenager whose grandfather and some other family member had died and by the sadness or whatever you want to call it on his face, he could just as easily been upset because he didn’t get a new Ipod.
Not buying any of it.
Thanks Mr. Adams, for giving me courage.
As does; I suppose; my wife's hairdresser!
Sure has gotten the heat off Susan Rice as well.
Sure has gotten the heat off Susan Rice as well.
Ridiculous. Guess again. There's plenty of heat coming Susan Rice's way, slowly but surely...
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