U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base After Chemical Weapons Attack

NBC NEWS ^

[navysealdad]

The United States launched dozens of cruise missiles Thursday night at a Syrian airfield in response to what it believes was the Syrian government's use of banned chemical weapons blamed for having killed at least 100 people on Tuesday, U.S. military officials told NBC News.

The U.S. military fired at least 50 Tomahawk missiles intended for a single target — Ash Sha'irat in Homs province in western Syria, the officials said.

[Deo volente]

Is it just me, or is FR once again incredibly slow?

Takes at least a minute for posts to go through. Pages have to be refreshed numerous times to fully load, etc.

Very frustrating.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

We don’t know yet. It’s April 2017, Trump’s presidency is still very early.

[af_vet_1981]

Go back to the debates and read what Trump said about Syria and Hitlery. Someone here posted it already. Trump’s Syria flip this week, the false flag chemical BS, and now 50! Tomahawks. Insane. Lies. Treachery. His presidency is over - two months in.

But what does Caroline Glick say about it ?

Since President Donald Trump entered the White House, Iran has been his most urgent foreign policy challenge. Unlike Obama, Trump recognizes that Iran’s nuclear program and its threats to US economic and strategic interests in the Persian Gulf and the Levant cannot be wished away.

And so he has decided to deal with Iran.

The question is, what is he supposed to do? Trump has three basic options.

He can cut a deal with Russia. He can act against Iran without cutting a deal with Russia. And he can do nothing, or anemically maintain Obama’s pro-Iran policies.

The first option has the greatest potential strategic payoff. If Trump can convince Russia to ditch Iran, then he has a chance of dismantling the regime in Tehran and so defusing the Iranian nuclear program and destroying Hezbollah without having to fight a major war.

The payoff to Russia for agreeing to such a deal would be significant. But if Trump were to adopt this policy, the US has a lot of bargaining chips that it can use to convince Putin to walk away from the ayatollahs long enough for the US to defuse the threat they pose to its interests.

The problem with the Russia strategy is that since Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, the Democrats, their allied media outlets and powerful forces in the US intelligence community have been beset by a Russia hysteria unseen since the Red scares in the 1920s and 1950s.

The fact that Obama bent over backward to cater to Putin’s interests for eight years has been pushed down the memory hole.

[Fu-fu2]

Reading a lot of comments like yours here. Appears there are a lot of posters on FR of questionable intent.

[LegendHasIt]

I guess Mike Cernovich was right again.

He predicted four hours before it happened that there would be a strike tonight.

Globalist Warmongering Fools.

And sadly, I include Trump in this category.

Either that or he was merely duped by the globalist warmongering fools and their false flag operation.

[databoss]

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[hoe_cake]

Trump doesn’t draw a red line in the play sand.

[af_vet_1981]

Appears there are a lot of posters on FR of questionable intent.

Just wait until they back North Korea ...

[databoss]

I agree, shocking really. I think it’s the Obama effect, years of drone strikes and hand wringing...when a real president does something pepole freak. In the words of Margaret Thatcher...grow some balls George.

[HandyDandy]

Shouldn’t we be hearing VERY shortly from the White House? Seems a lot of us have a lot of questions. A tweet is quicker than a missile.

[JTHomes]

Didn’t we just accidently kill twice as many civilians last week as this supposed attack by assad? This seems like a mistake.

[Paul R.]

This is probably less about Syria than it is about Iran, China, and N. Korea.

That may be. "A new sheriff's in town" message, perhaps?

I think some of this has to do with the US, through Tillerson, basically telling Assad we'd basically let him be, and then Assad (allegedly) throws it right back in our face.

The rather muted Russian attempts to forestall US action suggest that the Syrian AF DID gas their own people... If so, the Syrian gov't are damn fools. Trump is NOT Obama.

[haircutter]

MOVE OVER TO THE DEMOCRAT SITES ...

YOUR COMMENTS ARE NOT NEEDED HERE.

[shanover]

This big sh*t sandwich is the last thing this country, let alone the Trump Administration needed. I am wordless and shocked. less than 24 hours after McCain and Clinton WAR MONGER the exact sentiment to attack Assad. It is beyond understanding that we want to own Obama’s Syrian problem. Regime change folly is killing this country. They do know anti-Assad is pro ISIS? The removal of Hussein, Qaddafi and now Assad never made any sense in a strategic standpoint when one takes into consideration who the real threats are.

[Tzimisce]

Unfortunately, this is coming from the MSM meaning most of it is probably a lie.

[P-Marlowe]

CNN said that US Intel confirmed it was Assad with the chemical attack on his own people

Yeah, two of the most reliable sources known to man.

US Intel is filled with people who want Trump impeached. He hasn't drained the swamp and now he's relying on the same people who spied on him to give him "intel"?

[Red Steel]

When Trump next speaks with Putin, I bet he tells Putin to control his boy Assad.

[topher]

ABC News claimed this evening that the US could replay Intel and see where the Chemical Weapon attack came from. It was from a bomb from an aircraft.

[combat_boots]

Shayrat:

[topher]

ABC News claimed the US would just target Syrian aircraft and possibly Command-and-Control.

There are enough Syrian Air Force targets to send the proper message without targeting Command-And-Control...

Though ABC painted, I mean showed, a building in Syrian Capital that would be a good target...