Posted on 04/14/2018 8:04:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
To strike Syria, or not to strike Syria.
As of Thursday evening, Donald Trump, our tweeter in chief, is keeping the world, the Russians and Syria's dictator-in-chief Bashar al-Assad guessing.
On Wednesday, President Trump said U.S. missiles "will be coming" to visit Syria in retaliation for its government's alleged use of chemical weapons on the Syrian town of Douma on April 7.
On Thursday, Trump hedged a little, tweeting that he "Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all!"
Later he tweeted, "We'll see what happens."
Trump being Trump, we won't know what will happen until he makes it happen.
Meanwhile, everyone in the media and politics has a different opinion about what we and our allies should or should not do militarily to punish Assad for his latest crime against humanity.
In some conservative and Republican circles, I've been hearing that old familiar question - "What would Ronald Reagan do?"
I like to turn that around and ask, "What did Ronald Reagan do? What did he do 32 years ago this week?"
On April 14, 1986 my father sent a powerful message to Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi, the leading international thug of the day, that made Qaddafi behave for the next two decades.
For years Qaddafi had been sponsoring terrorism against American troops and citizens around the world and also financing Muslim rebels in the Philippines, the IRA, Palestinian guerrillas and even the Black Panthers in the USA.
Increasingly tough economic sanctions on Libya and the freezing of its overseas assets didn't impress Qaddafi and on April 4, 1986 he ordered his terrorists to bomb a dance hall in West Berlin known to be frequented by American soldiers.
Nine days later my father got Qaddafi's full attention.
At 2 a.m. Libyan time, about 100 U.S. Air Force and Navy warplanes hit five military targets and "terrorism centers" in Tripoli and Benghazi.
My father's message to Qaddafi lasted less than an hour. But one of the targets U.S. planes obliterated - the most important one - was one of Qaddafi's homes.
Qaddafi and family were elsewhere, but he got the message my father wanted him to get - "We know where you and your family live and any time we want to take you out, we can."
If I could give advice to President Trump about what to do in Syria, it would be this:
If you think we need to do something in Syria to show Bashar al-Assad we do not approve of his use of chemical weapons against civilians, you have to make him feel it.
Taking out a Syrian airbase or blowing up some Russian planes on the ground is nothing, Mr. President.
You have to make Assad know we know where he lives and that any time we want we can take him out with a missile strike targeted at his morning grapefruit bowl.
We have eyes on the ground in Syria. We know which palace or home Bashar al-Assad and his family are staying in at any given time.
Blowing one of them up with a cruise missile at 2 a.m. will be a wake-up call Vladimir Putin's favorite dictator won't be able to ignore.
Now who is the one who is disloyal because don't like that he is supporting the innocent victims in Syria that Assad gassed.
BTW I demand an apology from you for calling me (a woman) a pos.
How classy of you. /sarcasm>
We've annihilated ISIS and still have troops there to deal with what is left of them.
Let Russia spend the money to help Assad.
LOL - Washington is a cesspool of corruption.
ISIS is a creation of rogue elements in Washington. The US military is currently protecting ISIS. That much is very clear.
It’s some crazy amateur foolishness by some dimwits in Washington who think they can gun run to jihadists.
Look at what the clown McCain did supporting his favorite jihadis.
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You'll get no apology from me. You slander me as a #Never Trumper because I'm not buying the "new and improved" neocon McCain/Clinton/Obama Donald Trump that is 180 degrees opposite from the man I (and not you) supported in the primaries.
I see someone got my post removed. That's a shame because I stand behind every word of it.
It's not unreasonable to say Obama, McCain and Deep State sided with and assisted ISIS, which was incredibly stupid. But it is insane to claim they were created by the CIA.
That being said, Assad is not our friend nor are their Iranian allies or Russia. At best, he's the lesser of two evils.
There is nothing wrong with taking out his chemical weapons stash and forcing Russia to spend money and resources keeping him in power.
(Thanks; Comey!)
Someone else?
According to ABC News, there are at least 112 recognized spellings of the Bad Colonel's name. And here they are:
• Qaddafi, Muammar • Al-Gathafi, Muammar • al-Qadhafi, Muammar • Al Qathafi, Mu'ammar • Al Qathafi, Muammar • El Gaddafi, Moamar • El Kadhafi, Moammar • El Kazzafi, Moamer • El Qathafi, Mu'Ammar • Gadafi, Muammar • Gaddafi, Moamar • Gadhafi, Mo'ammar • Gathafi, Muammar • Ghadafi, Muammar • Ghaddafi, Muammar • Ghaddafy, Muammar • Gheddafi, Muammar • Gheddafi, Muhammar • Kadaffi, Momar • Kad'afi, Mu`amar al- 20 • Kaddafi, Muamar • Kaddafi, Muammar • Kadhafi, Moammar • Kadhafi, Mouammar • Kazzafi, Moammar • Khadafy, Moammar • Khaddafi, Muammar • Moamar al-Gaddafi • Moamar el Gaddafi • Moamar El Kadhafi • Moamar Gaddafi • Moamer El Kazzafi • Mo'ammar el-Gadhafi • Moammar El Kadhafi • Mo'ammar Gadhafi • Moammar Kadhafi • Moammar Khadafy • Moammar Qudhafi • Mu`amar al-Kad'afi • Mu'amar al-Kadafi • Muamar Al-Kaddafi • Muamar Kaddafi • Muamer Gadafi • Muammar Al-Gathafi • Muammar al-Khaddafi • Mu'ammar al-Qadafi • Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi • Muammar al-Qadhafi • Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi • Mu`ammar al-Qadhdhāfī 50 • Mu'ammar Al Qathafi • Muammar Al Qathafi • Muammar Gadafi • Muammar Gaddafi • Muammar Ghadafi • Muammar Ghaddafi • Muammar Gheddafi • Muammar Kaddafi • Muammar Khaddafi • Mu'ammar Qadafi • Muammar Qaddafi • Muammar Qadhafi • Mu'ammar Qadhdhafi • Muammar Quathafi • Mulazim Awwal Mu'ammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Qadhafi • Qadafi, Mu'ammar • Qadhafi, Muammar • Qadhdhāfī, Mu`ammar • Qathafi, Mu'Ammar el 70 • Quathafi, Muammar • Qudhafi, Moammar • Moamar AI Kadafi • Maummar Gaddafi • Moamar Gadhafi • Moamer Gaddafi • Moamer Kadhafi • Moamma Gaddafi • Moammar Gaddafi • Moammar Gadhafi • Moammar Ghadafi • Moammar Khadaffy • Moammar Khaddafi • Moammar el Gadhafi • Mouammer al Gaddafi • Muamar Gaddafi • Muammar Al Ghaddafi • Muammar Al Qaddafi • Muammar Al Qaddafi • Muammar El Qaddafi • Muammar Gadaffi • Muammar Gadafy • Muammar Gadhafi • Muammar Ghadaffi • Muammar Qadthafi • Muammar al Gaddafi • Muammar el Gaddafy • Muammar el Gaddafi • Muammar el Qaddafi • Muammer Gadaffi • Muammer Gaddafi • Mummar Gaddafi • Omar Al Qathafi • Omar Mouammer Al Gaddafi • Omar Muammar Al Ghaddafi • Omar Muammar Al Qaddafi • Omar Muammar Al Qathafi • Omar Muammar Gaddafi • Omar Muammar Ghaddafi • Omar al Ghaddafi
I like Qaddafi Duck myself.
“insane to say CIA supports ISIS“
I knew a handful of station chief level CIA lifers fairly well. Doofuses all and naive enough to think running guns to ISIS was a brilliantly clever idea.
You never met a more provincials group of gov‘t employees than those clowns. Ollie North is Metternich by comparison
Well said, bigbob! And Kaslin, don’t let the Russian trolls and their small western collection of trash bother you. They’re only
* Anti-Israel, antisemitic fascists
* Anti-Israel, antisemitic communists
* Some of both as religious fans of Robert Hanssen (antisemitic rad trads).
* And other fruits and nuts addicted to conspiracy theories.
They’re a tiny, delusional minority that makes a lot of noise. They don’t realize that their noise only makes healthier minded people more disgusted with them.
BUMP
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