Posted on 04/13/2018 7:16:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Trump on Friday announced that he has approved military strikes in Syria against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The decision follows a suspected chemical gas attack from the Assad regime on a rebel-held town near the Syrian capital last weekend.
The United States launched the response, along with assurance from France and the United Kingdom, Trump stated.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the operation is currently targeting the "clandestine chemical arsenal" in Syria.
"This evening I have authorized British armed forces to conduct coordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the Syrian Regime’s chemical weapons capability and deter their use," British Prime Minister Theresa May said in a statement.
Trump's announcement immediately preceded reports of loud explosions lighting up the sky in Damascus. Syrian TV reported that Syrian air defenses have responded to the U.S.-British-French attack.
Trump said the U.S. is prepared to "sustain" pressure on Assad until he ends what the president called a criminal pattern of killing his own people with internationally banned chemical weapons. It wasn't immediately clear whether Trump meant the allied military operation would extend beyond the initial nighttime round of missile strikes.
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weirdest.FR.thread.ever
Re: “Trump is helping stop a genocide based on information from our own intelligence and corroborated by the the UK and France.”
It might be helpful if Trump released that evidence to the American public.
I mean, every other American secret gets leaked to the press.
What’s so special about this secret?
And, while you’re thinking, what’s your plan if Putin responds violently?
The guy is spread out over 5 or 6 threads acting like a Clymer. We used to roast idiots for days on end for being less stupid.
What are you attacking me for? I haven’t even commented on this thread.
If Assads military is degraded, the Saudis are going to break through his lines and rape and murder every last Christian and Alawite in Syria. They are ISIS. It’s what they do.
No kidding. Are people drinking tonight?
Disaster? How so?
No Americans will likely be killed.
Welcome aboard, John Bolton. I’m sure it’s just coincidence.
If not for Assad, the insurgency in Iraq would have been shut down in a matter of months and Assad has there blood of many, many American troops on his hands.
The ISIS insurgency in Syria was started by the al Qaeda Jihadi entrenched in Syrian bases of operation after they were defeated in Iraq
During the days of ISIS, Assad was lesser of two evils, but he is evil.
Now that ISIS has largely been defeated as a cohesive force in Syria, we are faced with the mess that has been left in Syria and Assad is part of that mess because he needed Iran's help to defeat ISIS and Assad is now in there debt. Iran's Sheite Jihadi are now based and entrenched in Syria just like their ISIS predecessors were and they are intent on collecting their debts, which include destroying Israel and overthrowing the governments of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Assad is now becoming a base to export Jihad in the region and this needs to be stopped before it gets out of control..
The vast majority either support the action or don't care.
About that you are very wrong. The vast majority actively appose this, vehemently.
Who gives a damn is we rid the world of Assad's chemical weapons by dropping a few bombs? Some might even consider that a good development.
Cruz would have done the same thing and Paul would be as inept at combating Islamic terrorism as Obama.
You sound like you belong on Facebook or Democratic Underground.
does that include trump?
You and I can disagree, but you downplay how pissed Trump voters are about this at your own delusion. This board is at war with itself tonight. Good for Trump how?
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