Posted on 04/08/2017 4:48:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
With the successful missile strike against a Syrian air base last night, President Donald Trump has accomplished many important goals. He has sent a pointed message to the world’s dictators that the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated. In vigorously responding to atrocities committed by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the President has distinguished himself from the weakness of Barack Obama, who drew a “red line,” but flinched and refused to respond to Assad militarily.
The President acted less than 72 hours after Assad used chemical weapons to attack a rebel held area, Idlib Province. It was a decisive response that reassured American allies and sent a clear signal to our enemies, such as North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, that this President will not hesitate to use military action if necessary.
Another definite result of the President’s military order is that the fantasy about Russian collusion in the 2016 election has been shattered to smithereens. A President dangerously influenced by Russia would never have taken such strong military action against Syria, a close Kremlin ally. Furthermore, after nine months of a fruitless investigation, no evidence has been produced that Trump campaign operatives colluded with Russian officials to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.
While there was no viable way that Russians tampered with voting machines throughout the country, there is also no guarantee that Russians hacked into the email accounts of the Democratic National Committee or Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta. In fact, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange repeatedly stated that Russian hackers were not his sources for the emails. Whether there was Russian involvement or not, it is questionable what impact, if any, these disclosures had on the voting public.
If the Russians had supported any candidate in the last election, it would surely have been Hillary Clinton. As Secretary of State, she advocated a “reset” of Russian relations and spoke very positively of helping the government. In a March 24, 2010 interview, Hillary told Russian journalist Vladimir Posner that “our goal is to strengthen Russia.”
Even more damming is the fact that during Clinton’s tenure the U.S. State Department gave approval for the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation to purchase a controlling interest in a Canadian company, Uranium One, that had billions of dollars in assets, including control of 20% of our country’s uranium capacity.
Uranium is used in nuclear weapons and reactors and it is vital resource for any country, such as Russia, looking to rebuild their economy and military. While Hillary was green lighting Russia’s return to greatness, Bill Clinton was cashing in with fervor, receiving $500,000 to speak at a Moscow summit. The family foundation also did quite well, according to Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer. He said that “shareholders” involved in the Uranium One transaction “transferred approximately $145 million to the Clinton Foundation or its initiatives.”
During President Obama’s first term, while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, and during his second term, the Russians were never seriously challenged by the United States. Obviously, the country’s leaders were pleased at the lenient treatment by the Obama administration. They used the opportunity to grow in influence in the Middle East, establish a stronghold in Syria, destabilize Ukraine and invade Crimea, annexing the region. In the process, Clinton and Obama did nothing to stop them.
In contrast, Trump campaigned on a unambiguous platform of rebuilding our military. Under the leadership of Barack Obama, the U.S. military suffered tremendously with dangerous cuts to all branches of the military, resulting in our country’s smallest armed forces since before World War II.
To counteract this decline, President Trump has called for a $54 billion increase in defense spending. Clearly, Russian President Vladimir Putin would be much more comfortable dealing with a President Hillary Clinton than a President Trump, who acted decisively yesterday and signaled to the world that he is no one’s puppet. Last night, President Trump acted in the national security interest of the United States, not at the behest of Russia or another country.
A puppet of Putin would not have launched the devastating attack on a Syrian air base, a strong move that obviously upset and rattled the Russians. With President Obama in the White House, Assad’s chemical weapons attack was met by only rhetoric, while President Trump responded to Assad’s use of chemical weapons with impressive military might.
Hopefully, this missile strike will convince the Democrats to end their Russian collusion witch hunt, which is only making their party and the liberal media look ridiculous. It is also distracting Congress from accomplishing more important goals such as repealing and replacing Obamacare, cutting taxes, securing our nation’s borders and rebuilding our military.
What we need is a good pick of Hillary as a puppet...with many people on the strings...Obama, Bubba, Rice, Clapper, Brennan
Hillary for prison, lock her up
Hillary for prison, lock her up
We here at FR knew all this. About time liberals wake up and smell the stench that that emit.
We here at FR knew all this. About time liberals wake up and smell the stench that they emit.
Nice post. 100% correct.
But it is missing one item that would complete the circle: Assad’s motive for attacking civilians, including children, with chemical weapons and presumably doing so with Russian approval.
I’m still scratching my head over that tiny missing link.
The message is clear...when President Trump says something, he's not filtering it. It's what he's thinking. The silver lining might be that now it'll be obvious, even to the maniacs, that this fake narrative Russia BS has to stop. This might have been prevented if US officials were talking to Russians. It could've been sorted out who is using chemical weapons and they could've been removed.
I worry about the pro-war crazies who are orgasmic with joy and want more bombing. I worry that Nikki Haley and Jared Kirshner, and perhaps even Mattis (among others) are members of the McCainiac Club. We have to pray that that line of thinking, along with Ivanka's flakey liberal social leanings, don't drown out those who support Trump for the ideals he espoused during the campaign.
These two weeks, with the swamp creatures away from DC, will tell us a lot. I trust President Trump will sort it out. I'm just not 100% confident anymore
"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." From Scott Adams.
With ISIS and rebel forces losing influence Assad may have seen the opportunity to discourage any further opposition through the use of chemical weapons. Using Trump’s past statements they may have wrongly assumed he would not retaliate.
They were wrong and Trump sent an important message that while he views American interests first he will not abandon US leadership globally when it is in our long-term interests.
So Obama looked the other way on selling Russia our uranium and allowing then to mess with Crimea and Ukraine, looked the other while China expanded southward, and improved the chances of Islam spreading beyond the Middle East, and Trump is the traitor?
He was baited into this, so he is someone’s puppet.
Really ponder this: think gas attack but substitute sadam for Assad and Iraq for Syria.. why take the bait into another long drawn out conflict that we don’t belong in?
I do not support this action, as this seems to be the playbook from Iraq. Over what? A pipeline and a religious schism. Not just no. How many American lives are you committing to this? I am at zero.
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That's a bald-faced lie.
With ISIS and rebel forces losing influence Assad may have seen the opportunity to discourage any further opposition through the use of chemical weapons.
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Where did you get that crap from?
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