Posted on 04/07/2017 10:21:17 AM PDT by Starman417
Last night Donald Trump ordered an attack on Syria. In less than 100 days, Trump has taken more action against Assad than obama did in eight years. The attack was appropriate, measured and proportional. It sent a message.
To Assad and to North Korea.
Trump did not have to set a red line and then walk away from it.
President Obama’s decision to hold off on military action against the Assad regime after signaling that it was on the cards in response to last summer’s chemical weapons attack made the U.S. “appear weak,” former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said on Thursday.It seems the evidence was slam dunk. I watched retired Four Star general Jack Keane say we had military personnel on the ground who witnessed the aircraft drop the bomb and that we have radar tracking that traced the aircraft departure from and return to this targeted airfield. This is largely confirmed here.“My raw emotion, watching it from the outside, was just embarrassment,” he said.
“Sometimes the certainty of an action is far more powerful than the severity of an action,” Hayden told the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ annual forum in Washington.
“We’ve made everything uncertain, which actually makes you appear weak at some times, but also then demands that when you want to appear strong, you may have to be overly severe to overcome the uncertainty. It’s just bad all around.”
Syrian fixed-wing aircraft dropped chemical weapons on civilians in Idlib earlier this week, two U.S. military officials told NBC News.And from the NY TimesThe U.S. military saw the aircraft on a radar and watched them drop the bombs, the officials said. The radar soon picked up the flashes and booms in the rebel-held area of Syria.
It remains intriguing that Syria was able to mount a chemical weapon attack as both John Kerry and barack obama assured us that all chemical weapons had been removed from Syria.Witnesses described how Tuesday’s attack unfolded. That morning, a network of observers was, as usual, tracking the skies to warn residents and rescuers of possible airstrikes. They spotted Syrian aircraft and sent out warnings on walkie-talkies.
Syrian Su-22 aircraft were then seen circling above Khan Sheikhoun at 6:47 a.m. and again at 6:51 a.m. One of the observers — based on long experience — believed that the planes might be carrying a chemical payload.
“Guys, tell people to wear masks,” he warned.
Earlier in the day Secretary of State Tillerson hinted at this:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that “steps are underway” on an international coalition to pressure Bashar Assad from power, as President Trump was being briefed on military options for Syria – though what specific steps the U.S. and its allies might take in response to the latest deadly chemical weapons attack remained unclear.One wonders where the chemical agents originated. It was suggested that Saddam moved his WMD's to Syria- by Obama DNI James Clapper:America’s top diplomat addressed the Syria crisis a day after Trump declared in the Rose Garden that the chemical strike would not be tolerated. Tillerson pointedly said Russia should “consider carefully” its support for the Assad regime, while calling for an international effort to defeat ISIS in Syria, stabilize the country and ultimately work with partners through a political process that leads to Assad leaving power.
Asked if the U.S. would organize a coalition to remove Assad, Tillerson said: “Those steps are underway.”
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Not our country
Not our religion
Not our war
And just like that, Trump does more in Syria than obama ever did in eight years
Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi endorse Trump's attack in Syria
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2619622/
Last night Donald Trump ordered an attack on Syria. In less than 100 days, Trump has taken more action to enable ISIS than obama did in eight years.
ping to an interesting article.
Now that’s just ludicrous. ISIS is a creature of the Obama administration State Department.
This was posturing. All for show. Don’t forget Trump had that Xi dude from China sitting on the sidelines at Mar A Lago watching this show.
That fat kid with a bad haircut in North Korea? Yeah, he got the message too.
So why did Putin issue a strong rebuke? Even sent a warship towards our Destroyers? Fake outrage.
In the end, I’m of the opinion that this was staged and set up by the Putin/Trump alliance.
Amen to that.
send the message to the idiot dictators directly. Let’s get busy where it’s needed.
and NK has starved hundreds of thousands and shot missiles over our allies and threatened to nuke us. We have no business in Syria and they are not a threat to us. Russia is their daddy lt them deal with it. Iran and NK are the direct threats. But I guess that’s too tough to figure out.
Could be. A theory I have is Trump gets Putin's cooperation in Syria in exchange for a moratorium on NATO expansion.
Hmmmmm.
+1
send the message to the idiot dictators directly. Let’s get busy where it’s needed.
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No. Hell No.
You’re advocating attacking North Korea and Iran. There’s no way on earth you can contrast blowing up an airport runway (last night) with the full scale horrors of war that would be involved with attacking North Korea or Iran.
But we are paying the price ... in fact, Western Civilization is paying the price. Look what Syrian "refugees" has done to Europe and are on their way to doing to the United States.
It may not be our country, religion or war ... but it is in the vital interest of the West to end this damn civil war .... and if this strike proves we've had enough and moves the players closer to the negotiating table, we all win.
I am saying you will die later from nuclear bombs if you don’t act now. Hell yes. When a maniac or a religious fanatic determined to bring about the end of the world threatens us, I take their word for it.
I am not equating anything with the airstrips. Syria is not a threat to the US, but Assad’s replacements may be.
The more political leaders support President Trump, the better. The more support Trump has, the more he can accomplish. The more he accomplishes, the greater America becomes.
Trump just elevated himself from “incompetent clown” to “Competent, but I disagree with him” in the eyes of many who did not vote for him.
small wee - obama (the one who can not be found because he is hiding under his bros skirt) pulled troops out of the mid-east and made the creation os isis possible.
This would be true, if not for those pesky Syrian refugees transforming Western civilization in real time and before our very eyes.
This civil war needs to end, and end now! Hopefully Assad and Putin heard the message.
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