Assad becomes a victim of fake news.
base was identified as launching point for recent gas attack , multiple facilities were targets of 60 cruise missiles.
Russia _ucked up by allowing the usage of chemical agents.
...About 60 U.S. Tomahawk missiles hit the Shayrat air base, southeast of Homs, a small installation with two runways,...
Couldn’t a B-52 with a load of dumb bombs do this.
Notably, the missiles hit on 3:45 am local time, and struck the airstrips, hangars, control tower and ammunition areas, so maybe we were trying to at least minimize casualities somewhat.
One thing I can prove: tonight MSNBC, McCain, Hillary, Bill Krystol, neocons like Mattis and McMaster, and the Sunni rebels are all thrilled about this.
Maybe they will be his new support base.
Oh, and the SFgate and NYT will be happy too.
I wondered where all those chemical weapons went from Iraq.
Nothing fundamentally changes. Russia and Iran continue to pursue their own strategic interests in Syria. The launch of cruise missiles without a follow up definitive action to change the power equation in Syria essentially maintains the status quo. Assad is so useful to the Russians and Iranians, they will counsel him not to use such weapons again but will not force him out. Neither Trump nor Congress will risk a confrontation with Russia unless American security is directly threatened. However horrible the war in Syria may be, it is not a direct threat to the American people. There has been no real strategic change.
Tired of this already. Russia is playing games and Trump just called Vlad’s bluff. We can strike from anywhere without putting troops on the ground. Russia will no longer hide behind their little sister (Asaad). It’s not about Syria gassing their own. It’s all about calling out Russia. We will stop Assad and ultimately eliminate the refugee issue. The refugees invading the free world is what Putin wants. (Hint: He’s not taking any).
Nip it in the bud and if Vlad wants to face US one on one, bring it. In the meantime, if Trump is smart, soon he will be repatrioting military elligible Syrians back into their own country.
My only question is that if Trump is that smart...
Assad learns. Trump ain’t a wuss like O’Bumm. I like it.
Well, that’s surprising. (It’s not)
can they target DC and maybe some parts of fl. they need to wait a month. no one is there now. the rest of us will survive and carry on and do quite well.
You all need to settle down a bit and think this over. Obastard pulled out of Iraq when he shouldnt have. Then low and behold here comes ISIS. They promptly expanded the conflict all over the Mid East. Somebody dropped chemical weapons for about the 20th time in Syria. Only thing is, Obastard drew his Red err Pink line in the sand and either Assad or somebody else used them to show how friggan weak Obastard was. Laughed right in our faces they did.
Russia gets involved since Obastard hasnt a clue. Why? Because Russia has a warm water Naval Base in Syria and there aint no way in hell they are gonna sit back and watch that go away-matter of fact, they signed an agreement with Syria to expand that base in Jan of this year. That is why they are supporting Assad.
Now comes Trump, they cross his line. And what the hell is he supposed to do? Sit there and watch them thumb their effn noses at us?
So some here whined when Obastard showed his pink side and did nothing, yet gripe when Trump shows there is a line and if they cross it, watch out.
Russia is not, nor will they ever give up that naval base and I dont care how GD small it is now. I bet Assad stays.
One other thing to consider. Even Hitler, one of the most evil SOBs that ever walked the earth, never used chemical weapons. Yet these C-Suckers do, and they dont care. These bastards will kill every “infidel” in the world, and then will kill each other just for practice.
BTW. Wonder where all those chemical weapons that Saddam shipped out of Iraq went to? And these weapons have to be maintained and delivered properly. So who has the know how to do that?
60 is a lot of cruise missiles. They must have wiped out the place.
VICTIMS of the CHEMICAL Attacks agaisnt htem, by their OWN GOVERNMENT decry Syria’s use of chemical weapons
But alas- those people’s voices don’t count- only the voices of hte pukes in syrian government who issued the chemical attacks count, and they don’t like being held accountable for their actions, so they ‘denounce’ US attacks?
Go pound sand Syria gov!
Aw, poor Bashar, maybe the pansy russians can wipe his eyes, these creeps are pretty good at fighting little girls but not ISIS. Maybe the David Pukes are all mad at Trump as well.
My theory is that this is pressure for an end game in Syria without Assad.
He has grown more confident in the past year, as things have been going his way. But the Assad family is the linchpin of the Ba’ath Party in Syria. He needs more pressure to agree to go.
If you want to end up with de-Ba’athification in Syria, Assad must go - even if it is only a few hundred miles to a palatial retirement dacha on the Black Sea coast.