Shocking story, the blog article above is rather dry but the link to the NYT explains it better. It is all sourced to government statements on both sides.
To: BeadCounter
The writer of the article is a leftist propagandist. He does not care one iota about the USA.
Assad is the rightful, elected leader of Syria. If Syrians want a dictator running their country, then so be it.
Fighting Assad with rebel proxy’s (and them using Russian, Iranian allies) is not an attack on America.
It’s like saying that China attacked America when we were fighting the VietCong in South Vietnam during the 1960s.
To: BeadCounter
But Trump is in the pocket of Putin and is going soft on Russia!
It must be true because Democrats say so!!
3 posted on
02/22/2018 4:08:01 AM PST by
Erik Latranyi
(Liberal bastions are full of misogyny, drugs, pedophilia and racism (Hollywood, Academia, DC))
To: BeadCounter
Y'all would do well to bookmark the "Michael J. Totten" site and read his articles on a regular basis.
Only because he gives a different perspective on what's going on from the on-the-ground-view around the world, instead of 40K feet up.
I don't know him or his agenda, he seems like a straight shooter, though.
5 posted on
02/22/2018 4:16:34 AM PST by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: BeadCounter
The reason we didn't hear about it is because they are not there legally!
Thanks to Stinky and Crooked and all their fellow luciferians!
7 posted on
02/22/2018 4:25:11 AM PST by
rawcatslyentist
("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
To: BeadCounter
Russians who might have participated in the assault were mercenaries unaffiliated with the Russian armed forces. .............................. Oh, it must have been the Abraham Lincolnski Brigade?
10 posted on
02/22/2018 5:03:37 AM PST by
Bringbackthedraft
(Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
To: BeadCounter
That attack was testing Trump. They figured they’ll kill the US special forces and then hide behind the “plausible deniability”, but the Christmas came the other way and they got wiped out. Mattis was able to say with a smirk that “there were no Russian forces killed as we called the Russians and they said they are not attacking us”.
11 posted on
02/22/2018 5:09:39 AM PST by
Krosan
To: BeadCounter
Putin would never play games... nahhh Such a benevolent person of a civilized country
14 posted on
02/22/2018 5:29:33 AM PST by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
To: BeadCounter
What the hell are American troops doing there in the first place? Haven’t we gotten the message yet? Wasn’t Libya or Iraq enough?
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