Posted on 04/08/2017 6:59:10 AM PDT by bray
He said, “Because hands were lifted up against the throne of the Lord, the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.” Exodus 17:16
The attack on Syria was unexpected and shocking to most of President Trump’s supporters. A large share of them are tired of nation building and believed him when he said we have tried to build enough nations and it was time to build America. The fact it was done as punishment for using chemical weapons on his own people was hard to justify since that part of the world is always killing and even gassing their own people. President Trump saw it as going over a number of lines and decided a message had to be sent.
As it turned out by all appearances this attack became a feather in his cap. Overnight, similar to Bush with the 911 attack he is looked at in a new light and the world seems to have gotten a message he may or may not have meant to be sent. The sabre rattlers of the planet including Chairman Xi who he was having dinner with have to realize this President will act rather than just talk. They also realize with a Secretary of Defense like "Mad Dog" Mattis will develop a plan to reach out and touch bad guys around the world.
Whether you agree or not, you have to admire the speed and efficiency he used to decide and execute his attack. There was no wishy washy back and forth with Congress or worse yet the UN, it was decided he would make President Assad pay the price for using chemical weapons on his people. The only question many had was if he actually used them or was framed, but President Trump had to have had absolute proof it was Assad’s Air Force which was perhaps the stupidest thing he could have done. There are reports spy agencies had the name of the pilot who dropped the bombs and the punishment was decided.
The surprising piece was how fast Trump’s enemies lined up to cheer the attack. Whether it was the Prime Minister of Britain or the King of Saud, he was supported pretty much universally around the world and much of our own Congress on both sides of the aisle. In the end it was pretty much a pin prick by bombing an air base which will be back up and running within a week or two although taking out his aircraft will hurt him for some time. Let’s hope this is all we want to do with this den of vipers.
The last thing we want to do is topple another dictator in a region there are no good choices. Yes, he is as bad as Saddamn, yet when you take out a despot you are going to have another madman emerge to try to govern a country of Islamic terrorists. The reports are he has killed over 400,000 of his own people, but who says they were innocent. When you are in a vicious civil war those are casualties and yes they likely had atrocities, but take a look at any one of the countries in that region and you will find similar brutality. If we learned anything from Iraq it was if you take down a leader you are committing to being the occupying army for that country for at least ten and more likely twenty years. Of course the Dems will want to pull out in six months and use the occupation as a club to win elections.
The best solution for the Mooselimbs is to let them fight as their Koran requires, and hold their turbans. When the winner emerges you can deal with him and move on. This is not our business or worth any of our precious blood and treasure for a land who has been at war for five thousand years. We cannot solve it or in any way prevent it from happening it is a part of the cult of death. This is a cult invented by a sexual pedophile who developed a religion to kill Jews and Christians. Moderate Mooselimbs only want to kill Jews and Christians while radical mice want to kill Moderate Muslim. Which ones do you want to trust your Christian sons and daughters with?
Our military once again proved it is the best in the world. When it wants to reach out and touch somebody it can do it from 500 miles away with pinpoint accuracy. It made their display in our Turd century sandbox where nobody was hurt and by the looks of it their airport was nearly as run down as La Guardia, so no harm, no foul. From President Trump’s standpoint he became the true world leader that night. To be dining with one of the most powerful leaders in the world and launch an attack takes some real nerve. He knew he had to make it happen quick so the message is not lost yet large enough to symbolically make him feel some pain which he accomplished. He also sent a message around the world saying America is back to be the world’s cop and he is back on duty with his billyclub.
The massive collateral damage was proving Putin installed the wrong guy. After all of his cunning releasing those damaging Podesta pedophile tapes to WikiLeaks to make sure Harpy was defeated, he got double crossed by Trump. How stupid could he be? This attack made Putin look like he was involved in the gas attack which eliminates him as the world leader. There is a new pup in town and now Putin and Xi are no longer the Alphas. Whether President Trump planned it or it just happened the world is looking at these three men in a completely different way which bodes well for the world.
President Trump needs to have wisdom in this decision. We do not need to get ourselves trapped in this war, there are no good sides and most are terrorists. We need to continue to support the Kurds and the Iraqis we know we can trust, but Syria has become a den of snakes since many are Al Qaeda who was pushed out of Iraq. Those were extremely brutal warlords who massacre those who stand against them. President Trump has to take his winnings and save them for another day when we will be called on to spank a bad man with a bad haircut rather than being bogged down in this quagmire.
Many of us who supported Trump never expected to agree with him more than half the time. He is not a pure Conservative, rather is a negotiator who will drive purists nuts. He does have the ability to fall into a mud puddle and emerge with a thousand dollar brown suit and this is one of those examples. The initiating the nuclear option to confirm Supreme Court Justice Gorchich is another. For most conservatives the putting him on the Court was all that was hoped for and anything else is really bonus. This has all the hallmarks of a very special presidency and we need to pray for his wisdom and strength in this Syrian civil war. America does not need another useless quagmire to free people who do not want freedom in the first place. It is time to save Lady Liberty for America.
Pray America woke
Well done, Sir!
Enough brayin
Them of little faith ought to get some.
Thank you Bray. This decision President Trump made was a difficult one for me to accept because of all the previous comments he’d made about staying out of Syria.
I was thinking about what this would do to Putin. Your comments were brilliant in addressing how this makes him look on the world stage.
Thanks Pugs, most of us were the same way but he was affected by the attack and turned out fine. He has a very lucky and skilled with people. Most of us can barely keep up.
Another great essay Bray.
Most vets do not like war. I was hoping Trump would stay out of this, and hope he does not enlarge our role (while there are many begging for no fly zones, regime change, etc - I understand Trump’s response was limited to no more sarin gas usage - notwithstanding SOS’s mouth about plans to topple leader).
Media has goaded him into hating the Russians. What promised to become a new page for US-Russian relations has been stomped out by the phony “Russia hacked the election” lies.
As much as I resent Ivanka and her husband highjacking our movement, I hope they at least pull him back from the brink of antagonizing Russia too much. Mike Flynn was going to deemphasize Russiaphobia and properly replace them with radical Islam in the bullseye, but alas he had to go according to the masters of the universe.
We need to pray Trump stays on message.
Follow the braying with praying now.
The gospel could win even benighted Islamic peoples. Who would do something so nervy as to blanket them with high power broadcasts, perhaps even anti-jamming based on noise cancellation technology? I’d like to see some nervy Christian of means step up and try it.
And pray. For the Lord, from the foundation of the world, to seed the scene with the destined elect. That could burst Islam’s bubble.
That’s a well written and fair article. Yes. This attack was very troubling to some of us for the reasons you pointed out. It’s a complex situation, and hopefully President Trump made the right call.
My opinion? I hate it when America does things that we would never tolerate if done by another nation, but then again, we don’t nerve gas people. Maybe if we did that sort of stuff, other nations would be justified in taking military action against us.
In that case of events, other nations would have to get in line behind our own citizens getting some.
I predicted early on that Trump would be our Winston Churchill.
This is very troubling. When the crazed warmongers John McCain and Lindsey Graham sing your praises you had better watch for the knife concealed in their cloaks.
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