Posted on 04/06/2017 7:13:33 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
President Trump said Thursday night that the United States had carried out a missile strike in Syria on Thursday night in response to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons attack this week that killed more than 80 civilians.
A senior military official said that 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles had hit Al Shayrat airfield in Syria. The missiles were aimed at Syrian fighter jets and other infrastructure but did not target anything that may have had chemical weapons.
He said that no Russian planes were at the airfield and that the cruise missiles did not target any Russian facilities.
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Have you already forgotten the purpose of this limited, targeted airstrike?
Accountability for using chemical weapons against children and other innocents.
Get it?
If Assad had used napalm instead of nerve gas, could that be tolerated?
He’s like Hitler in that he’s killing people for who they are not because they are a military enemy, killing civilians men, women, and children, and using illegal weapons of mass destruction.
In what way is he not like Hitler?
He’s like Hitler in that he’s killing people for who they are not because they are a military enemy, killing civilians men, women, and children, and using illegal weapons of mass destruction.
In what way is he not like Hitler?
That's a bit of a "Captain Obvious" conclusion. And it cuts the other way too, what goes right will be on Trump.
I get it. Chemical weapons being lobbed at civilians is a terrible thing. But there are people starving in Africa. There are narcos butchering each other in Central America. There are trees falling in the forest. It just isn't on us to fix everything. Not only is it against our founding principles, but it is impossible.
Kinda like the Vietnam limited strike, and the Afghan limited strike, and the Iraqi limited strike, which were implemented after Congressional approval and serious investigation.
It's the WAR Powers Act that gives President Trump authority to do this but it strips him of Congressional cover if he acts hastily on false information.
Not worth the risk to put a Sunni terrorist state in place of Assad, and that is the only possible result.
If he had used incendiaries and burned some children alive in an attempt to fight ISIS, would that really be worse than nerve gas?
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I think burning alive would be worse than nerve gas, one for one.
Depends on the type of gas, and dosage. The emotions of nerve gas death are certainly worse. The unknown possibility of an unseen gas, that can get large populations is a worse threat.
Mustard is different, blisters your lungs, you drown.
How about drowning in a cage in a swimming pool?
Burning in a San Fran warehouse?
This type of discussion coupled with this event, saddens me.
I just asked another guy this question: If napalm had been used and collateral damage occurred (children and innocents), would that have justified U.S. intervention?
Who is Assad “accountable” to? “The World”? “The U.N.”? Are we now “The Worlds” enforcer?
Is the U.S. “accountable” for all the civilian deaths in Iraq?
Relax... it was just one air base... it was a long overdue message to Assad to back off.
We can deal with ISIS ourselves... Assad should just go sit in his palace and mind his own business.
In many ways this one-off attack against a Syrian air base is a tempest in a teapot. It is in response to a Syrian use of chemical weapons. There is no indication that the US will follow this attack with more military action directed against the Assad regime.
At the same time, the US has been bombing ISIS targets within Syria for months on almost a daily basis and we now have over 1,000 military personnel inside the country. We are doing this without the approval of the Assad regime. We have technically violated the territory of a sovereign country. Yet, tonight’s attack against a Syrian air base has some of these posters clutching their pearls and crying the sky is falling.
Once you fire that first shot, events are out of your control.
You’re deploying the use of tactical distraction by abstraction. Careful, it makes you look like a certifiable leftist.
Trump has stated that he wants Assad removed from power.
Wow, that's some extrapolation you've got going there. Hopefully, we don't go there but I actually think we should wait until some kind of follow-up before we break out our freeze-dried stuff.
We have been bombing targets in Syria every day for months. We have 1,000 military personnel inside Syria supporting the defeat of ISIS. We fired the first shot in Syria many months ago.
Post #82 ROFL!
First of all, a guy below listed ways in which he is “not like Hitler”. I’ll list a few more: Assad sees them as a “military enemy” much like we saw the Iraqi army. Assad killed civilians and we killed civilians....whether it was done with bombs, fuel-air explosives, incendiaries, or bullets is irrelevant.
Assad is not interested in world (or even regional) conquest. He is also not interested in lebensraum for the “Master Race”. He will also NEVER have the technological advantage over his local enemies that Germany had. He is the leader (barely) of a wartorn hellhole....that’s all.
That doesn't mean he's going to start a war there to do it. This was just a "strongly worded message" basically... one base.
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