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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I don’t doubt most of them did hit their targets.
The goal was to hit as few as possible and to do as little damage as possible.
Russian TV!!!? Good God Hugin you are smarter than that! C’mon!
Personally, I like a dangerous and unpredictable President Trump. I’m loving this Shiite. get some.
I think the argument can be made that by taking out Assad, we are actually dealing with the debt problem but I don’t think anybody really wants to go there yet. our foreign policy is all about our national debt. it has been that way for decades.
My Dad always told the story of how he realised the US knew it was going to be in WWII well before Pearl Harbor (in hindsight not a major piece of perception).
As a boy in Derry in Northern Ireland he was impressed by the arrival of US construction workers who were “helping” the British Navy upgrade their base. It was never made clear what role these men were playing but they were seen each morning being trucked down to the base in their civilian clothes.
Until the morning after Pearl Harbor when they were trucked to the base wearing their USN uniforms, they were all Seabees.
I wonder how often this was being repeated at “British” bases (that immediately transformed into US bases) across the world before Pearl Harbor.
Runways aren’t important, planes are. Using missiles to destroy concrete is not cost effective. Assad just lost 20% of his Air Force. He can’t sustain another loss like that.
This perception is not a bad thing if used skillfully.
As the fog of war lifts and before I forget,......... one other piece of news that came out just prior to the the tomahawks flying, was,........ Dr Ben Carson had just uncovered $500 Billion was gone from HUD. I just include that for the record.
“If he concentrates more on stabilizing the situation rather than escalating military actions, that would be a better course of action. “
Stability is not the objective. If it was, Step One would be turning Riyadh, Mecca and Medina into various colors of glass.
That information came from the White House. I get the emails.
But did he lose that rag-tag but efficient AF pilot and commander that we know of in the mix, and his proteges.
“Russian TV!!!?”
Why not? You know the US media is not the unbiased neutral media it claims to be and yet would you only take information from those sources?
No of course not, if you want to get an accurate picture of what’s going on you need to have as many sources as possible.
You need to follow the BBC, the US media AND the Russians and Al Jazeera, and you can sift out the truth.
If you are claiming that RT is faking its video footage well prove that, otherwise you need to accept that maybe, just maybe, you aren’t getting the full picture from CNN, because as we know they would never lie to you, would they?
RT is an obvious propaganda organ of the Russian state but they don’t fake footage, they will ignore news that is inconvenient to Putin and highlight news that boosts him or denigrates his opponents but they rarely flat-out lie or fake footage.
If you only listen to the news you want to hear and refuse to listen to facts that don’t accord with how you want the world to appear then you are going to be very easily misled.
I saw the drone footage with IR of craters. Not much bang for the American buck. It was Clintonesque. How did it stop the proliferation of WMD and punish Assad exactly (even if he was culpable?)
Why, it set the new ROE in the ME re: Chemicals = certain destruction with no warning. All the arabs except Iran and Assad cheered this op; they have to breathe, too.
“the US knew it was going to be in WWII well before Pearl Harbor”
Yup..the books I have been reading claim that they had plans in place in the mid thirties and the plan was basically the same as really played out. They knew the Pearl was going to be hit and the Philippines as well.
It’s kind of a shame the FDR wouldn’t commit more Naval assets to the Pacific sooner, instead opting for the European theater; it caused a lot of grief among the Naval commanders tasked with defending the US in the Pacific, even after Pearl Harbor!!
“They don’t fake footage”.....and you know that how? Well how???? Where did I say I “Got the full picture from CNN” for any damn piece of info huh?? FReepers do NOT view CNN. Where did I say I didn’t view what the BBC had to say? I’m an old timer, been around a while. Seen a few things. Don’t even try to lecture me.
Oh calm down dear, you’ll have a stroke if you hit the question mark key any harder.
Get lost sonny.
“Not much bang for the American buck”
That’s just wrong...completely wrong. Aside from the REAL damage done...upwards of $700,000 worth, the political gain was huge. He showed the American people what a President should do in defense of women and children, unlike Obama. He just slipped the script on the Democrats.
Obama’s red line decision got rebuked this week (and his former staff aren’t happy about it)
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/08/obamas-red-line-decision-got-rebuked-this-week-and-his-former-staff-arent-happy/
But not everyone who was part of the previous administration is playing defense for their former boss this week. Politico Magazine reports some Obama alumni say the strike was long overdue:
Many of the most head-snapping comments I heard came from Obama’s own top advisers, who had long pushed him to confront Assad more aggressively and viewed his 2013 refusal to take military action against Syria after drawing a “red line” on chemical weapons use as a major American foreign policy debacle. There’s no love lost for Trump in this group, whose members found themselves in the uncomfortable position of cheering a leader they still both loathe and fear.
“Our administration never would have gotten this done in 48 hours,” one former senior official of the Obama administration told me. “IT”S A COMPLETE INDICTMENT OF OBAMA.”
“I feel like finally we have done the right thing,” Anne-Marie Slaughter, who served as Obama’s first-term chief of policy planning at the State Department and long publicly urged a more forceful response to Assad’s horrific attacks on civilians during the six years of war that have wracked Syria, told me. “The years of hypocrisy just hurt us all. It undermined the U.S., it undermined the world order.”
That quote about this strike being a “complete indictment” of Obama is really the key. If you had any doubt why many of the former president’s aides are upset about the strike, that’s why.
I hate to ask.
Are you a moron?
Ever seen the debt clock.
You are damned stupid. Like deliverance stupid with the banjo.
It pains me to share the Internet with you.
You Dum Dum. You Dont Know Ass From Hole In Ground. Your Idiocy is EPIC!!!
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