...in Retaliation for Syrian Chemical Strikes...
Where’s the proof they dropped chemical bombs not regular bombs that blew up a Rebel chemical weapons depot?
Funny how the rebels keep bombing themselves with chemical weapons and never Assad-controlled areas, isn’t it? Always at the same time that Assad is conducting air raids on the area too. What a wonky strategy.
Don’t get me wrong, if the rebels had the sort of stocks of chemical weapons that Assad confirmedly does, they would be using them. But they’d be gassing areas where Assad controls. Something that never happens.
Assad’s method of siege warfare hasn’t changed. If your enemies are too well hunkered into an area, gas can get them out. It worked in Homs, it worked in Aleppo, and he’s not going to stop doing it in his attacks on north Hama and Idlib unless someone - such as a US president who’s not a total pushover - makes him. That doesn’t mean going to war with him. But it does mean sending a message.
And here I’d definitely say, message sent.
I presume one place such proof might be is in the intelligence reports which convinced the President, his Defense Secretary, his cabinet, and his advisors that Assad really did launch a chemical gas attack against his people.
And evidently, the President made a judgement that something needed to be done about it. I, for one, am highly skeptical that President Trump would undertake such an action if he wasn't 100% convinced of Assad's guilt.
The armchair general second-guessers around here are really overreacting to this. I suspect ulterior motives in some cases.
One isolated cruise missile salvo and it's "Apocalypse Now" in the minds of the hand-wringers. The lack of trust and "fair weather friend" reaction is just astounding...