Posted on 04/07/2017 2:13:29 AM PDT by Candor7
...in Retaliation for Syrian Chemical Strikes...
Where’s the proof they dropped chemical bombs not regular bombs that blew up a Rebel chemical weapons depot?
They have, quite often. That said, they’re usually chlorine, and a lot more limited. Sarin attacks by them are pretty rare, they gave up most (but not all) of their sarin and VX (over 90% of it before cooperation with inspectors was stopped). But in one of the dumbest oversights in “weapons inspection” history, Obama / Kerry did nothing to make Assad declare or limit chlorine supplies, because they’re “dual use”. So after a brief lull, chlorine attacks actually picked up vs. before the inspections.
Anyone remember the “Red Line”? What a joke.
Of course, it’s been years since the inspections stopped, so he could very well have whole new sarin / VX factories up and running by now.
Nerve agents are not a pretty way to go. And doctors are often afraid to touch you because a lot of the agents are oily substances that stick to your skin; you can become a living chemical weapon.
Funny how the rebels keep bombing themselves with chemical weapons and never Assad-controlled areas, isn’t it? Always at the same time that Assad is conducting air raids on the area too. What a wonky strategy.
Don’t get me wrong, if the rebels had the sort of stocks of chemical weapons that Assad confirmedly does, they would be using them. But they’d be gassing areas where Assad controls. Something that never happens.
Assad’s method of siege warfare hasn’t changed. If your enemies are too well hunkered into an area, gas can get them out. It worked in Homs, it worked in Aleppo, and he’s not going to stop doing it in his attacks on north Hama and Idlib unless someone - such as a US president who’s not a total pushover - makes him. That doesn’t mean going to war with him. But it does mean sending a message.
And here I’d definitely say, message sent.
So far it doesn’t look like Trump is interested in regime change. Its simply to remove one airfield off the battlefield that was responsible for the chemical attack
Obviously, as the Cdr and Chief, any president is empowered to use our military in defense of vital US interests and people. And that without congressional authorization.
Can he do the same on offense to promote vital US interests is the question.
Also, does the authization of force in Syria from Congress include this action? My guess is that it probably is written in such a way that it actually does. We sent Rangers and artillermen there a few weeks ago. Obviously, not for a checkers tournament.
I will always support our troops. No question.
I do not want another depose-a-dictator war in the mid-east, though. Imo, we should focus on winning the wars we already are engaged in.
Wonder how the US would feel if some African nation launched an attack on one of our military bases as a show of displeasure against the violence in Chicago.
Assad violated the Chemical Weapons Convention.
And, yes. We can retaliate on behalf of a third party. Suppose he had attacked a hundred or so miles away—Israel.
Apparently, there are many here who prefer Obama’s foreign policy and strategy of doing NOTHING.
I know the Arab Spring Agenda fully.....
But you left an important part out....
After Iran goes down. The POTUS has already publicly stated Iran has to be dealt with.
After that we will move onto another item he has endorsed.
The “Two-State Solution” for Palestinians which I expect to result in many Israelis in Judaea and Samaria being expelled from their homes.
Vladimir Putin may be the only person standing in the way of a process that will end in Jews being evicted from their homes.
Haha. So true. They wear uniforms in baseball.
If any raghead in Syria, of whatever persuasion, wears a uniform at all, it's what has been cast off by fleeing, trembling Iraqi "soldiers".
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2619622/
The S.O.S. said it was time for a regime change, so I guess the globalists have infected this administration...
PRINCE Kush with his suit and Kush flak jacket are advising him. Mattis who wants Dems under him. Tillerson who wants ASsad out. Oil prices up right now after bombing.
MCINSANE who has wanted this all along.
No russian asset was harmed. Russia gave the signal this was going to happen if you watched my thread yesterday. I went long oil and gold because I could see it. Out of it now.
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross. Both built at Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula Mississippi.
“Wonder how the US would feel if some African nation launched an attack on one of our military bases as a show of displeasure against the violence in Chicago.”
You might as well wonder what the US would do is Santa Claus invaded Newark the day after Christmas with an army of reindeer. Both are pure fantasy & irrelevant to Trump’s action in Syria.
Suppose he had? That would still, in my opinion, call for the term "intervene" rather than "retaliate."
Why bother? Who cares? Let them kill each other.
Trump: Why I Launched a Missile Strike on Syria
To Show Everyone That I Am a Soros Stooge
The Donald Trump of the past month is not the Donald Trump I voted for.
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