Posted on 04/17/2018 6:05:16 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
French President Emmanuel Macron defended his country’s participation in a massive missile strike over the weekend, which saw more than 100 missiles fired from US, British, and French ships and aircraft at sites used by the Assad regime’s chemical weapon program.
The three countries struck eight targets at three separate facilities over the weekend a week after the Syrian government allegedly used sarin nerve gas and chlorine gas to kill dozens of civilians in a suburb of Damascus.
The Western allies informed the Kremlin of the attacks ahead of time, allowing Russia to remove its forces from the targeted compounds and surrounding areas. Russia is allied with both Iran and the Assad regime, and critics have suggested that the prior notification of the attacks limited their effectiveness.
On Tuesday, Macron suggested during an address to the European parliament that the missile strikes likely did not “resolve anything” in the region, but were nevertheless “important” for preserving the ‘honor of the international community’.
“Those who are shocked by images of women, of children who have been attacked by chlorine, we need to stand up to defend our rights. What are we going to say, our rights and principles are just for us? No, that simply isn’t acceptable,” Macron said, according to AFP.
“These strikes don’t necessarily resolve anything but I think they were important,” said Macron, adding that the missile attack upheld “the honor of the international community”.
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All good points. But the bottom line is this.
If you consistently discipline a person, that person will change his behavior.
If you are not consistent, and not a man of your word, the person has no respect for you.
If you have two children fighting over a toy, you take it away from both of them.
Trump was consistent, a man of his word, and he took away their toy. Can they get more toys? Sure. Will they misbehave with them again?
I guess we will see.
Did they actually misbehave this time? I think Trump even has his doubts, and this whole thing was possibly for show, with Russia and America in cahoots so that they both looked good. There are worse things. But don’t expect the Leftards to be convinced that this refutes the collusion narrative.
How stupid.
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