Posted on 04/15/2018 12:41:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
It's hard to think of the last time America didn't have a wartime president. From Franklin Roosevelt on, the U.S. military has been ordered to engage in hostilities at least at one point during each administration.
Donald Trump, the nationalist businessman from Queens who spoke with isolationist tones on the campaign trail, had the potential to break this cycle. Trump violated Republican orthodoxy by denouncing the Iraq War as foolish, disparaging the legacy of NATO, and decrying how much blood and treasure we've lost to Middle East nation-building.
It's one year into his presidency, and things have changed. Trump, working with Britain and France, ordered missile strikes against military and weapon research sites in Syria. The country's leader, Bashar Assad, still in the throes of a civil war, allegedly deployed chemical weapons against rebels in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. The sarin-based attack killed 80, including civilians and children.
The strikes come nearly a year to the day after Trump ordered a unilateral strike on a Syrian airbase in response to a similar chemical attack. The Syrian regime, leading another front against the concept of rhetorical consistency, decried the U.S.-led assault as "brutal, barbaric aggression." Russia has called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, defending its ally Assad by denouncing the multilateral strike's "devastating impact on the whole system of international relations."
Dostoyevsky would be hard pressed to imagine the irony of Russia upholding international norms in the year 2018.
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So WWII never realy ended? It just morphed into policing the world.
Articles like this are so stupid.
He ran on bombing Syria. Bombing the s*** out of them.
Trump did and destroyed ISIS so far.
If he can do that, he can do this.
What about the Spanish-American War? WWI?
It started before WWII.
Except Americans actually wanted ISIS bombed. Not assisted.
I don’t think Syria was the target, it was Rocket Man in North Korea. RM in NK is probably overdosing on diarrhea control meds right now.
The judgment will have to wait until time proves what affect the attack had in any immediate sense, and will yet have on unfolding events in Syria.
For instance, we can now best assess the Obama administration claims (John Kerry, Meet The Press, 2014) that all chemical weapons in Syria were either destroyed or removed. Anyone could have said that “success” was praiseworthy at the time. Just as others could have said that making the claim set a bad precedent, because it was not a really verifiable claim. History shows the Obama claims were far from correct - bad precedent and not praiseworthy.
Well again, we will have to wait and see.
I think in regard to Middle East WMDs the only successful case was that in Iraq in and after 2003, where we did not leave any guessing to chance. That came at a high cost, and it is understandable that succeeding attempts to thwart production and use of WMDs in the Middle East have not wanted to repeat that method.
“Except Americans actually wanted ISIS bombed.”
Yes. And that’s not isolationism.
“Donald Trump, the nationalist businessman from Queens who spoke with isolationist tones on the campaign trail”
Saying he was going to bomb Syria is not isolationism.
The article is stupid, based on a false premise.
To attack Syria for its use of weapons denounced by The West, after all the diplomacy failures, made Syria ‘an example’ to its partners in horror, Iran and North Korea.
“This was the guy found in the alley with a head shot and a rat stuffed in his mouth.”
How is the any different than the bombing a year ago and under every president in my lifetime. We do limited bombing engagements to keep these rogue countries in line. Not just the one we are bombing but also for the other 20 thinking about stupid things. There’s nothing protracted here based on Friday’s actions. It’s a one and done. We do have a role in the world even without engagement in actual troops on the ground wars. And that’s a good thing. Reagan used these types of actions successfully. I give Trump the same power.
Mariner said it best. It’s a terrible precedent. Any time there’s a “suspected chemical attack” are the US, France, and the UK going to guess which side was responsible and start bombing things against maybe the correct guess?
No, just when there is one that is backed up the Russia-Iran-North Korea axis of power. That alliance is not our friend.
What intelligence do you have that president Trump doesn’t have???
We have NO RIGHT to bomb Russia-Iran-North Korea or any other govs because they don’t support the agenda our gov does!
President Trump proves that he is “America first” by attending to needed defense measures.
The globalist, who favors more world government and less sovereignty for individual nations does want a perfect world peace that cannot be attained with the everlasting reappearances of bully dictators in some nations.
We don’t want nuclear weapons landing on our own soil, before we act. Our President puts America first in both defense and economics. The United States hasn’t seen such a president for a very long time.
As for anti-American traitors against defense, they’ll be alright after going through drug/alcohol rehab.
I have the logic of the situation. President Trump announced he was leaving Syria because ISIS was defeated. THAT was "mission accomplished"....undoing as much as possible the mess Obama created. Then this very sloppy false flag occurred and all of a sudden we aren't leaving and we're bombing because of a suspected culprit. This was a mistake. President Trump should've brought the troops out, then announced he had done it.
If President Trump becomes another war-thirsty globalist, I doubt he can win re-election or even enough of the HOR to avoid impeachment. He inherited a lot of the progressive anti-global interventionist vote that's part of the conservative family. There will be no eagerness for that group, Rand Paul's natural constituency, to get to the polls.
“...Then this very sloppy false flag occurred..”
So you DO have evidence that this was, without a doubt, a “false flag” occurance!!
Great!!!!
Please show us your PROOF...
“This is exactly how Nazi Germany started!” —Fawlty Towers
“Don’t mention the war!”
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