Posted on 04/07/2017 5:13:47 AM PDT by Zakeet
Complete Headline: Thank you, Mr Trump! First images of damage at Assad’s burnt-out airbase emerge as tearful Syrians cheer US missile raid
These are the first images of the carnage caused by Donald Trump's Tomahawk barrage on al-Assad's badly damaged airbase as Syrians thanked the President for the raid.
US missiles appear to have shattered hangars, destroyed at least nine Syrian jets, weapons and a fuel store, as well as leaving left giant craters in the runway at al-Shayrat military airfield near Homs.
Its radar system and surface-to-air missile defences were also damaged - but crucially the laser-guided missiles avoided the Sarin stores there.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“his arbitrary no-no about which chemical compounds are grounds to invade other countries is bad policy.”
While I agree that there is and should probably be no particular philosophical difference between 2 different and horrible ways to kill other human beings, the fact is that about 100 years ago, in light of the horrific experiences of the various combatants with poison gas, it was decided to put that particular genie back in the bottle...and Assad took out the cork. Obama did nothing about it but huff and puff like the pussified windbag that he is, but Donald Trump said, “ENOUGH!” Personally, I find it hard to disagree.
Maybe, just maybe, putting on form of mass killing off of the table will lead to another method being taken off? Even if not, it certainly seems worth a try - especially when it was just used against defenseless civilians. Trump merely indicated that it wouldn’t be done for free ever again.
Another winner! We have another winner. Congrats!
http://www.princetonmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Ziad-PMAG.jpg
Any intelligent ISIS propagandist would have had poison gas on hand at likely target locations. When Assad bombed, they would gas some children whose parents were insufficiently sympathetic and film the results, just after a real Syrian attack on terrorists and rebels. Or Assad might have done it himself. I find it hard to believe either Russian or Israeli conclusions on what happened.
Perhaps this was worth it, although I do not want the bigger mess we will face if Assad is removed from power. Perhaps we’ll get some value from this operational test of TLAM against Russian air defenses. Perhaps we’ll get something of domestic or foreign political value. Perhaps this will help “legitimize” President Trump in the eyes of the Ctrl-Left and the RINOs. Perhaps not.
All dead ISIS fighters are immediately transformed into “defenseless civilians” by Jihadi media the moment they die.
We were in s declared war with Germany.
Your comparison is just silly.
There were moral and, more importantly, practical reservations about using chemical weapons during the Great War. As a veteran of that war, Hitler was well aware of the practical issues, even if he had no moral compunction about them.
http://chemicalweapons.cenmag.org/when-chemicals-became-weapons-of-war/
Cheers!
Another jpg winner! That makes three.
http://www.princetonmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Ziad-PMAG.jpg
That is called negotiating from a position of power.
>There were moral and, more importantly, practical reservations about using chemical weapons during the Great War. As a veteran of that war, Hitler was well aware of the practical issues, even if he had no moral compunction about them.
There was a Russian fort in the east that the Germans attacked with chemical weapons. The Russian defenders didn’t have gas masks. The Russian defenders easily beat off the German assault that followed the chemical attack. Maybe the modern version of the weapons are better, but the historical record of chemical weapons is pretty poor.
The Trump admin did not plant the gas but I had certainly thought about the second part of your statement. I find the timing of the strikes most interesting since it comes at exactly the same time as the nuke option is exercised to get a new SC justice confirmed and a meeting with China is held to talk mainly about NK. Wag the dog?
Something is not entirely accurate here.
Look at the damage to the bunker.
http://i.imgur.com/APhf5ZB.jpg
It is very similar to the damage caused by a Small Diameter Bomb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3fKXx50Zs&t=2m50s
Yes. You may be sure that any Syrian airfield personnel
was well out of the way, given they knew TRUMP wasn’t a
bulls*#itter like OBAMA blowing & bragging about “crossing
red lines”. - At least, Assad won’t be using that runway to
launch planes armed with poisonous gas to drop on his own
people any time real soon.
I think he was warned to not do it by Roosevelt, Truman,
Churchill if he didn’t want Hell to descend on his head
(which it finally did anyway).
Truman had personally experienced being attacked with
chemical weapons in combat during WWI - also Churchill I
think. (Germany had used them in WWI.)
Oh. . I see your sarcasm. President Trump is able to walk
and chew gum at the same time . .
So they couldn’t, or for whatever reason didn’t get any photographs of serious stuff like maybe some of Assad’s messed up aircraft, or barracks, or something tangible!?
Looks like random photos of a war torn country to me. Almost as though Daily Mail scrambled through their file drawers for photographs.
I am confused about these Russian channels... arent they going tomwarn Assad of the attack so he can switch AAA on?
Wolf Blitzer: how do you deal with combat stress.
Mattis: Excuse me sir, I never get combat stress, I always give combat stress.
Love this guy.
LOL
Well technically he did gas the jews...
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