Posted on 04/08/2017 8:20:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump’s limited, proportional missile strike on a single Syrian air base had a clear purpose: Punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for having launched a chemical weapons attack that killed over 85 of his citizens and deter him (and others) from engaging in similar WMD-related war crimes.
The strike was not aimed at toppling Mr. Assad or ousting his minority Alawite regime, at least, not yet. Removing Mr. Assad would undermine what Mr. Trump has long called his key foreign policy objective — defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and the other most dangerous Islamists who have destabilized much of the Middle East.
But the launching of some 59 sea-based Tomahawk cruise missiles against the Syrian Air Force’s base of Shayrat sends a strong message not only to Syria but to several other states and groups with a stake in the outcome of that country’s brutal civil war....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Syrian war survivor Kassem Eid went on with CNN Friday after President Trump’s missile strikes against the Assad regime on Thursday.
at least the russians and chinamen will think twice about causing s$$t. Obongo did nothing and gave them the impression it was a free for all. If they think Trump is nuts and unpredictable it’s a plus
It increases the likelihood of regime change in his 1st 4 years. Think the Norks, Cuba, Venezuela. Syria? A safe zone to return people would be good enough.
Xi was sitting waiting for Trump while the strike was made
The entire message was sent and received
I hope the chattering class will take a break for awhile.
Trump has been in office for less than a hundred days. He has started on or accomplished much of what he ran on. He has kept more promises than many presidents.
The missile attack means a technical state of war exists between US and Syria.
I had a little fantasy in my head about that, telling the premier about what just happened to Syria, and then saying something like: "Now, about North Korea."
I'm sure nothing like that happened; but, it didn't need to. The message was very clear to the Chinese. You don't do something about North Korea, we will. I think the world is beginning to realize that Donald Trump is a very different POTUS from Barak Obama.
If that’s all it takes we’re at war with half the countries on Earth.
REALLY!
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that is very technical
I like the move, it’s multi-purpose. You have to throw your marker down quick in this ugly world if you are a player. Now we watch and see how that goes and what’s next.
What a complete, total crock of sh*t.
Huh? Really? Prove it.
Yes, Syria can join the 60 countries where we have military operations ongoing. We at at war with Islam and they are most everywhere.
If he wanted to really send a message he'd have at the very least bombed a couple of the ISIS strong points at the same time he hit the airbase after admitting we couldn't be sure which side used the chemical weapons.
That's a line in the sand that says, no chemical weapons in no uncertain terms. What we said by only hitting the airbase is, yes ISIS and Al Queda, false flag chemical weapon attacks can keep you from losing.
Or, is there some reason I don't know why ISIS and Al Queda who have used chemical weapons dozens of times are still exempt from US attack?
I understand what Trump has done and why he'd do it even if he'd have rather taken a different approach. Which is, in fact, still more proof that the same Neocon/Globalist SOBs that have been running foreign policy are still running foreign policy in spite of all the noise about all a whole floor at Foggy Bottom being emptied of apointees and staff.
I hope he's moving faster on getting rid of holdovers from the Bush/Obama years than he seems to be. The holdover tail will try and wag the Trump dog over Syria again within weeks and then we'll see whether Trump is capable of standing up to the BS Boyz who plan on keeping him hog tied for the next four years.
JMHo
Assad is killing al-Qaeda-backed Jihadists. Why are we making his job harder?
One unspoken message in it was to let EVERYBODY know that, if necessary, we can send a Tomahawk or other device into the BR window of any particular potentate, and leave the surrounding territory untouched and unscathed. IOW....Shape the he!! up, Dude.
This little pin prick?
I may have missed it somewhere, but just which intel service did President Trump trust to provide true & accurate information? I’m not criticizing, mainly because I don’t know enough about most of the situation, but if I was in his situation with the intel services apparently fighting against him, who could he have trusted?
I’m not in favor of the airstrike, because the evidence is somewhat inconclusive but more importantly it’s a 180 from what he said repeatedly in his campaign regarding Syria just a few short months ago.
And while the attack was literally a “pin prick” as you describe, when contrasted to the last 8 years of Obama literally surrendering to the enemy at every possible opportunity, it did allow the US to show that we do still actually have a somewhat operational military, which they may have otherwise thought no longer existed.
Cynically, I think the “wag the dog” analysis has as much merit as anything, considering the ongoing Russia investigation, and how this could further help discredit the ongoing witch hunt.
Bottom line, Trump capitulated to political attacks and correctness, in the foreign policy arena. Let’s hope it’s a one off, and not a trend.
Art of the deal in geopolitics
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