Posted on 04/06/2017 6:46:29 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
"So now let's get back to the globalist/interventionist sh!t after all."
--- President George W. Trump
One good thing is that McTurd is so happy now maybe he’ll dance himself into a heart attack.
>> The same dumbf*cks that thought taking out Khadafy was warranted?
The Bitch made it happen and enjoyed watching it happen.
The proxy assassination of Khadafy was an egregious, destabilizing action. And it helped to manufacture the migrant crisis that’s now infecting Western Europe.
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We can’t ignore the Middle East and hope the problem will sort itself out. It’s naive and childish to think we can. We have to remind everyone we have power and will use it.
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It’s naive and childish to think we can sort this out. Our success rate after some 30 years is exactly zero.
I don’t trust Intel so much I told my husband that the sarin videos may have been a false flag by the CIA or FBI to get Trump to act, then they will “surprisingly” discover that Assad wasn’t behind it to try to make Trump look like a reactionary fool.
It’s sad that we have to question our own governmental agency’s loyalty to the president.
There was a civil war in Syria in attempt to take down Assad. Initially, it was home grown composed of Assad's enemies. The failure of the US to support the domestic opposition, like we failed to support the Purple Revolution in Iran, resulted in outside groups (including ISIS and AQ) entering the country and the Russians and Iranians to widen the war. A chronology:
2010 May - US renews sanctions against Syria, saying that it supports terrorist groups, seeks weapons of mass destruction and has provided Lebanon's Hezbollah with Scud missiles in violation of UN resolutions.
Nationwide uprising
2011 March - Security forces shoot dead protestors in southern city of Deraa demanding release of political prisoners, triggering violent unrest that steadily spread nationwide over the following months.
President Assad announces conciliatory measures, releasing dozens of political prisoners, dismissing government, lifting 48-year-old state of emergency.
2011 May - Army tanks enter Deraa, Banyas, Homs and suburbs of Damascus in an effort to crush anti-regime protests. US and European Union tighten sanctions.
2011 June - The IAEA nuclear watchdog decides to report Syria to the UN Security Council over its alleged covert nuclear programme reactor programme. The structure housing the alleged reactor was destroyed in an Israeli air raid in 2007
Opposition organises
2011 July - President Assad sacks the governor of the northern province of Hama after mass demonstration there, eventually sending in troops to restore order at the cost of scores of lives.
2011 October - New Syrian National Council says it has forged a common front of internal and exiled opposition activists.
2011 November - Arab League votes to suspend Syria, accusing it of failing to implement an Arab peace plan, and imposes sanctions.
2012 February - Government steps up the bombardment of Homs and other cities.
2012 March - UN Security Council endorses non-binding peace plan drafted by UN envoy Kofi Annan. China and Russia agree to support the plan after an earlier, tougher draft is modified.
2012 June - Turkey changes rules of engagement after Syria shoots down a Turkish plane, declaring that if Syrian troops approach Turkey's borders they will be seen as a military threat.
2012 July - Free Syria Army blows up three security chiefs in Damascus and seizes Aleppo in the north.
2012 August - Prime Minister Riad Hijab defects, US President Obama warns that use of chemical weapons would tilt the US towards intervention.
2012 October - Fire in Aleppo destroys much of the historic market as fighting and bomb attacks continue in various cities.
2012 November - National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces formed in Qatar, excludes Islamist militias. Arab League stops short of full recognition.
2012 December - US, Britain, France, Turkey and Gulf states formally recognise opposition National Coalition as "legitimate representative" of Syrian people.
2013 January - Syria accuses Israel of bombing military base near Damascus, where Hezbollah was suspected of assembling a convoy of anti-aircraft missiles bound for Lebanon.
Rise of Islamists
2013 September - UN weapons inspectors conclude that chemical weapons were used in an attack on the Ghouta area of Damascus in August that killed about 300 people, but do not allocate responsibility. Government allows UN to destroy chemical weapons stocks, process complete by June 2014. 2013 December - US and Britain suspend "non-lethal" support for rebels in northern Syria after reports that Islamist rebels seized bases of Western-backed Free Syrian Army.
2014 January-February - UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva fail, largely because Syrian authorities refuse to discuss a transitional government.
2014 March - Syrian Army and Hezbollah forces recapture Yabroud, the last rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border.
2014 June - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants declare "caliphate" in territory from Aleppo to eastern Iraqi province of Diyala.
2014 September - US and five Arab countries launch air strikes against Islamic State around Aleppo and Raqqa.
2015 January - Kurdish forces push Islamic State out of Kobane on Turkish border after four months of fighting.
2015 May - Islamic State fighters seize the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria and proceed to destroy many monuments at pre-Islamic World Heritage site.
Jaish al-Fatah (Army of Conquest) Islamist rebel alliance takes control of Idlib Province, putting pressure on government's coastal stronghold of Latakia.
Russian intervention
2015 September - Russia carries out its first air strikes in Syria, saying they target the Islamic State group, but the West and Syrian opposition say it overwhelmingly targets anti-Assad rebels.
2015 December - Syrian Army allows rebels to evacuate remaining area of Homs, returning Syria's third-largest city to government control after four years.
2016 March - Syrian government forces retake Palmyra from Islamic State with Russian air assistance, only to be driven out again in December.
2016 August - Turkish troops cross into Syria to help rebel groups push back so-called Islamic State militants and Kurdish-led rebels from a section of the two countries' border.
2016 December - Government troops, backed by Russian air power and Iranian-sponsored militias, recaptures Aleppo, the country's largest city, depriving the rebels of their last major urban stronghold.
2017 January - Russia, Iran and Turkey agree to enforce a ceasefire between the government and non-Islamist rebels, after talks between the two sides in Kazakhstan.
2017 April - Widespread international condemnation of apparent Syrian air force chemical attack on rebel-held Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib Province.
Why would Assad have done that now? I can’t see how it would be in his interest with Russia and America cooperating in destroying his rivals (ISIS). Does it make any sense for him to have ordered it? I think Trump got snookered. Hope I’m wrong, but I have a bad feeling.
Was I supposed to read something into that message?
That may be very close to the truth.
I understand both sides right now. I at first leaned stridently against this.
We’ll have to see how it shakes out.
I’m not a big fan of Assad removal. If he used Gas, I may be wrong on that.
Some folks don’t care if he used Gas or not. They think we have no business there.
They may be right. In the interest of humanity, they may be wrong.
We’ll see how it shakes out.
We already have 1,000 military personnel in Syria and we are bombing ISIS in Syria every day. This has been going on before and since Trump got into office.
This is what I believe. Thinking of Lil Kim.
Trump's actions are very measured regardless of what some perceive as impulsive.
Thought I read that Trump got some intel from Israel. I trust Bibi.
Except one little thing. Assad is fighting Isis. Trump’s pledge was to destroy Isis, not Assad.
Do you always post bad analogies when your logic fails? Cause that’s all you got in your arsenal and it’s pathetic.
Reasons are being stated several times why this action was taken, but you continue to ask stupid questions and ignore them.
What satisfaction do you seek? Trump is president. You’re whining on FR. You have no say on the decisions being made on a world scale. So if Trump made a bad decision, and he will make them, he is human. You come and gloat? If so its sad. He’s done hundred things to make our country better already. The alternative was Hilary. Was she your pick? Are you Share blue?
Some of us voted for Donald Trump because we don't have any interest in perpetuating this sh!t.
Both must be destroyed.
Interesting thought. That may be a very astute consideration.
Reading comprehension, you do have it I assume.
Exactly. But we have to attack Assad to send a message to the North Koreans ... or something like that. /sarcasm off/
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