Posted on 04/08/2017 6:23:38 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Trump defends decision not to hit runway on Syrian airbase
By ERIN DOOLEY Apr 8, 2017, 5:14 PM ET
Following reports that two Syrian jets took off from the airfield hit by U.S. missiles Thursday night, President Trump defended his decision not to strike the runway.
"The reason you don't generally hit runways is that they are easy and inexpensive to quickly fix (fill in and top)!" the commander-in-chief tweeted.
According to one U.S. official, initial assessments indicate that up to 20 Syrian aircraft were destroyed after the U.S. hit Syria's al Shayrat airbase with more than 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles Thursday. However, the runway -- as well as storage areas suspected to contain chemical weapons -- remained untouched.
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Do you think a couple of potholes is all the US achieved in this raid? That’s certainly what your comment implies.
Those tamls are like Zatarain’s rice dinners you’ve had in your pantry for two years and know you need to make else throw them out. Sorting out the expired spices from the stable rice would cost more in effort than worth it.
RESIST THE SWAMP!!! RESIST THE FAKE MEDIA!!!!
I can easily envision what will happen when Trump’s infrastructure project gets underway. Various minority interest groups and crooked local governments demand big slice of contracts. If Trump balks, they will scream “racism.” I am sure Trump fully expects it. Since Trump has a long experience in construction project, I hope he can navigate around this potential mess.
but I believe the footage I saw.
I didn’t imply that, you inferred it. My only point is that using Tomahawks to try to crater runways would be a waste of expensive hardware.
Maybe so, but most everything that was shown, was that we drove those Tomahawks right through the open front doors of those aircraft shelters and there’s nothing left inside but some scrap metal.
Which is why he left the runways be and took out aging MiGs that were nearly expired as the Zatarain’s but managed by a rather clever pilot with real good mechanics and endless Rooskie spare parts.
If President Trump somehow cured cancer there would be articles about how he neglected people with pneumonia and Bell’s palsy.
President Trump didn’t do the targeting. Some general did.
Judge for yourself. I seriously doubt the footage is fake, it just doesn’t show the real damage in an effort to make it look ineffective. And I didn’t know Russia was in cahoots with Soros. Care to elaborate on that relationship?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwOhaiSviLQ
Yep.
That's looking less likely with statements like this from our UN Ambassador =>
I'll just add what I said yesterday about the "controversy by the dummies..." : Those runways will soon be needed by coalition forces.
As soon as they give up trying to find the inept, incompetent african muslim's Commander-in-Chief's Red Line...
So now they are going to complain we didn’t hit any stockpiles of chemical weapons at the base (assuming we knew exactly where they were). Of course if we had hid such items and in doing so released way more chemical-attack-gases at that base than had been spent attacking the rebels, then the international and U.S. media would have been complaining about the great number of deaths (like Russian too) from the exploding chemical stocks we hit.
The media is going to do all they can to try to make this attack a lose-lose for Trump, in their story-line, no matter what. They will be hypocritical and trying to take negative positions, trying to have it both ways, no matter what Trump does.
Ya know, I was kicking around the elegance and just downright slick of this op yesterday and it occurred to me there are a lot of parallels with this and the op the IDF designed to take out that Syrian nuke facility. Same speed, efficiency, stealth.
You're being way too optomistic -- In California, it would take millions of dollars and years just for planning and gettting approvals for the repair. The repair would then take additional millions and years to complete.
Just finished reading a book on the Guadalcanal campaign in WWII...the US continually bombed Jap airfields around Rabaul with little success..they were back in 8 hours. During the Iraqi war, the British flew their Tornadoes fast and low to drop anti-runway ordinance, but they paid a terrible price. I believe they lost more aircraft and airmen than any other nation.
BTW..I read yesterday that the cost of the version of Tomahawk that was used is down to $250,000. They probably couldn’t wait to use them so they could get the latest and greatest!!
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