Posted on 04/09/2017 3:34:33 AM PDT by Mechanicos
Then why did he do it? He used nerve gas to block a peace process agreed by the US and Russia that would turn Syria into cantons and reduce Alawite control only to those districts where the Alawite minority dominates.
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A lot of Assad supporters on FR.
Assad thinks he is killing terrorists.
So many experts commenting on this subject without first hand information. Did they all have intelligent briefings and see the information that prompt the President to act? I had never seen so many FR defending Assad. What is next? Defending North Korea’s dictator?
I’ve read so many times about the first responders not having the proper safety gear. This is a third world country. Most of them have nothing but t-shirts and sandals. If safety wear were readily available, would they even know how to use it. Also, they would have to assume or know what they were dealing with. Plus, you see a bunch of women and children suffering and the immediate reaction is just to get to them and help them. Lots of people run into harms way to help others.
CS is one of two types of tear gas; the other being CN. Nobody was killed with CS, though they might wish they were.
CN irritates your eyes and that’s about all. I found it annoying, nothing more.
CS, on the other hand, irritates all of your mucus membranes including nose, throat and lungs, and all of it hurts.
These things I learned by tear-gassing THOUSANDS as a U.S. Air Force gas mask instructor. And if the students gave me any crap that day, or wore too much brass, then I might have added an extra CS capsule, or three, to the burner. Purely by accident, of course.
*** Lots of Assad Supporters on FR ***
Since I don’t believe Assad is a threat to the US, since I don’t support regime change in Syria, and since ISIS is a bigger threat than Assad, I am an Assad Supporter.
I hope and pray that the President is doing the right thing...
...but I don’t think he is.
The Assad family keep the peace for a very long time. It was BO’s bs ‘arab sping’ that destabilized the whole Mideast.
The arab spring was just an excuse for radical muslimes to overthrow the governments that supported the US during Operation Iraqi Freedom in ‘03.
I’m thinking jihadists unleashed the gas to get the superpowers to go toe to toe.
We are slowly dying the death of a thousand cuts.
Yes CS is very irritating. Just for laughs, there’s a tree right outside the exit of the Fort Leonard Wood gas chamber. I couldn’t get out of that chamber fast enough. I managed not to hit the tree though.
He’s winning so doing it was dumb dumb dumb dumb
That’s my understanding as well, US could observe every step in the process leading up to the bombing and returning to base. As well as capture all communications in the region. That’s SOP in a war zone now.
It was Saran and most likely Russian.
The Russians want only one outcome in Syria, the Russians in control of Syria. Trump having any kind of success in region is big problem for the Russians and their plans.
When you line the unsavory characters up; ISIS, Assad, Turkey, Russians/ Putin....Russians/Putin are the worse and most deadly by far.
Does anything Muslims do make sense?
The tinfoil is thick on this thread.
Why did you stop beating your wife?
(Since I don’t believe Assad is a threat to the US, since I don’t support regime change in Syria, and since ISIS is a bigger threat than Assad, I am an Assad Supporter.)
What you said is the same as saying,
“Since I don’t believe KIM-JONG-UN is a threat to the US, since I don’t support regime change in North Korea and since RUSSIA is a bigger threat than KIM-JONG_UN, I am an KIM-JONG-UN Supporter.”
Ok got it. Same logic.
“A lot of Assad supporters on FR.”
Can’t say I’ve observed any Assad supporters ever on FR. I expect they would get the ban hammer asap if they ever showed up here.
I have observed some folks twisting the words of President Trump’s supporters with false, lame accusations that suggest supporting President Trump’s strike in Syria is equal to supporting Soros & Alinksy. Quite bizarre stuff, IMO.
sure was on 4-19-93
I don’t remember the exact date. It was sometime in Nov ‘82.
Absolute nonsense.
Evidence was gathered and presented to the President, his Cabinet (including Defense Secretary Mattis), and his advisors. An unclassified summary of that evidence was also presented to the public, replete with aerial photos and flight path information.
And let's not forget, President Trump has compelling reasons to be skeptical of his own intelligence apparatus. So to somehow think that the President would have taken this action in the absence of convincing evidence is just ridiculous on its face.
On the contrary, I'm quite certain that the evidence shown to the President was so overwhelming that it erased any doubts he might have had.
Ignored are various unconfirmed reports that moving Sarin from Libya was part of Benghazi.
What makes you say such reports were ignored? I'm sure they were given all due consideration. You're just making another baseless presumption in an attempt to support what is obviously hysterical opposition to the President's limited military action.
Dennis Kucinich also claims that he believed Assad’s wanting to get rid of the gas when he questioned him as part of an interview.
Well it looks like Assad found a creative way to do that.
Assad as other have pointed out had no real motive for using gas, and it was very limited strike which make no sense militarily.
Ruthless dictators are sometimes less than predictable in their motives, and sometimes behave less than intelligently or logically.
But if you want to speculate about motives, maybe Assad's motive was to challenge a President who he thought was weak, like the feckless Obama administration had been. Maybe Assad's intent was to make America appear timid or indecisive on the world stage.
If so, the tactic backfired.
In any event, nobody can expect a dictator like Assad to behave according to civilized norms. After all, this wasn't the first time Assad used chemical agents in an attack, was it?
ISIS on the other hand has motive to use and likely expertise to make Sarin, but that possibility is totally ignored by supposedly smart people in DJT’s government.
Another presumption that's absurd. Are you honestly trying to claim that the possibility of ISIS using Sarin was "totally ignored"? It was doubtless given all due consideration.
The armchair generals sure are quick to play the second-guessing game...
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