In the aftermath of the 21 August attack Obama ordered the Pentagon to draw up targets for bombing. Early in the process, the former intelligence official said, ‘the White House rejected 35 target sets provided by the joint chiefs of staff as being insufficiently “painful” to the Assad regime.’ The original targets included only military sites and nothing by way of civilian infrastructure. Under White House pressure, the US attack plan evolved into ‘a monster strike’: two wings of B-52 bombers were shifted to airbases close to Syria, and navy submarines and ships equipped with Tomahawk missiles were deployed. ‘Every day the target list was getting longer,’ the former intelligence official told me. ‘The Pentagon planners said we can’t use only Tomahawks to strike at Syria’s missile sites because their warheads are buried too far below ground, so the two B-52 air wings with two-thousand pound bombs were assigned to the mission. Then we’ll need standby search-and-rescue teams to recover downed pilots and drones for target selection. It became huge.’ The new target list was meant to ‘completely eradicate any military capabilities Assad had’, the former intelligence official said. The core targets included electric power grids, oil and gas depots, all known logistic and weapons depots, all known command and control facilities, and all known military and intelligence buildings.
Obama is a blood thirsty evil demon. those in Congress, the police, the courts, the press and the military that protect him are even worse.
Obama is a blood thirsty evil demon... Is this not the strike that John Kerry described to Congress as "unbelievably small", a mere "pinprick"?
One wonders why the CIC seems prepared to obliterate Assad's regime, but has been reluctant to use force against other Muslim regimes.
“Under White House pressure, the US attack plan evolved into ‘a monster strike’: two wings of B-52 bombers were shifted to airbases close to Syria, and navy submarines and ships equipped with Tomahawk missiles were deployed.””
And Putin was willing to engage U.S. Forces with a thin line of warships, to stop Obama from attacking yet another country.
I would have LOVED to have been a fly-on-the-wall when that aide rushed in to the situation room, with the NSA-intercepted message that Putin was about to go to war over Syria. You KNOW the narcissist did not take that well, hence the US-financed Ukraine Civil War now.
Remember how all the Democrat wonks went on TV afterwards to say, “Well, there are OTHER ways to get at Putin!!’
Now we know what they meant.