yep aircraft cost millions concrete runways are repaired in a couple days with concrete and gravel, you only hit them to control launches for a short period of time. while you want to have air superiority.
Yep. Because Syria needs to focus on hitting ISIS first, then other Islamists in country (including McJuans’s buddies).
You don’t hit the runway. You hit the parked airplanes so they don’t need a runway. Runway, easy to fix - airplanes and jets, not so much.
There was film from Russian TV that showed some did hit runways. They made a hole about two feet deep and a few feet across. Looks like it could be fixed in a couple hours with some concrete. Not much of a return for a $1,410,000 missile.
I’m certainly hoping this was a one-off. It served its purpose of telegraphing that Trump was forceful, decisive and willing to act quickly.
Whether Assad’s military conducted a gas attack (fairly doubtful, IMHO) or not, it served its purpose of providing a rationale for decisive military action at a time of high visability.
Now Trump and the American military can get their focus back on supporting the defeat of ISIS.
I agree. I hope this goes no farther.
With pallets loaded with hundred dollar bills.
So, there ARE chemicals stored there and we didn’t hit them because it would have released them on the people. That’s what Assad claims happened when he dropped some bombs.
These are FakeABC's words. I see no mention of "the storage areas being untouched" in Trump's tweet.
Where does FakeABC get the supposed information that the storage areas remain untouched?
“If he concentrates more on stabilizing the situation rather than escalating military actions, that would be a better course of action. “
And just how do you propose that he does that? Right now, the only way to “stabilize” the situation at the moment would be to kill nearly every armed person in the country! And real stabilization would require ground troops (some of whom would dle), billions of our hard-earned bucks, and far too much time that should be devoted to other more fruitful matters both foreign and domestic. We’ve been down that road with both Booshes, no thanks! Never get involved in a religious war if it doesn’t directly affect you.
And now, we’re going to look to “taking care of business” in North Korea, which does directly affect us and a several good allies.
RESIST THE SWAMP!!! RESIST THE FAKE MEDIA!!!!
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.
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.
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!!
As someone pointed out here, next time go in the the hanger doors on fortified hangers.
We’re going to need that runway to fly our planes in to drop off supplies for allies, refugees who need to go back and the staffs of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and whoever else among the media or muslim community who just can not be loyal to the United States.
just cycling some old inventory.. nothing to see here.. has the russian battleship arrived there yet?