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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What goes wrong will be on Trump.
At this point, I just can’t relate with the “let’s attack Trump” sentiment expressed by so many previously seldom seen posters on this website.
Russia knew not to have any planes there that could be harmed
What business is it of ours?
Isn’t Syria fighting ISIS?
Yep. Deep State.
Congressional approval - my first thought as well.
Could have sworn I read that President Trump tweeted that nothing will happen without it.
Not liking the way this sounds...
I would really, really like to know Assad’s motive for his alleged CW attack.
Trump’s first big mistake.
Sounds like a huge waste of money to me. Certainly more costly to the Americans than to the Syrians. (Cost around $80 million).
At this point, who do you trust? US intelligence, or Russian intelligence. (I pick ‘neither’).
Trump can bypass international authorization by claiming human rights violations (it’s basically an extension of self defense claim for humanity). Trump can use the 1973 war powers resolution to bypass congress.
I would really, really like to know Assad’s motive for his alleged CW attack.
No motive at all that any thinking person can see. It was a False Flag, IMO.
No, this was Kerry all along promising like for Iran that all chemicals were removed thanks to the magic negro.
Obviously Assad wanted the idiot in power and kept quiet giving Obama the space he needed. Now that opinion is divided, he saddles Trump with the Obama mess.
Where in the kcuF do we get off intervening in a their Civil War?
Who intervened in ours?
Would we like to be invaded and bombed by another country(Mexico don’t count)?
What other countries should we “intervene” on behalf of their citizens?
Venezuela seems like a good idea.
What about Iran? Those Pluckers shot their people dead on camera.
So, can we just bomb North Korea?
Who will replace the leaders we displace or kill?
Will they be friendly to us?
What is to prevent the new leaders from committing atrocities?
Since we are bombing the FK out of everyone, why can’t we install a republic founded on a constitution much like ours, by force?
What countries have we invaded in the last 20 years and improved the lives of its citizens and made the world safer?
What happened to non-intervention?
How is this America first?
The rest of the world doesn’t see this is as human rights violations so, why is this our problem?
kcuF the EU
kcuF NATO
This is closer to being their problem than ours and I have heard nothing from those Apeholes....
I’m not going to attack President Trump, but I’m not happy with this neocon interventionist BS. :(
Trump took the bait.
Check your history.
The US has done dozens of wars w/o congressional approval.
Syria won't cross that line again.
And the Russians now have some choices:'
Can you relate to concerns over bad policy decisions? I love lots of things about Trump, but I’m a paleo-conservative who has seen foreign policy adventurism become an albatross around the neck of presidents like George Bush. I was hoping that Trump would avoid the neo-Con influence of people like McCain and Graham. What does Trump hope to achieve by weakening Assad? Anger Russia? Embolden ISIS?
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