[Enlightened1]

CNN = FAKE NEWS

This is just the warmongers encouraging President Trump to go to full war in Syria.

The Globalist want war in Syria. The Nationalist do not.

President Trump is taking the middle road by striking the chemical weapons only that were launched by McCains Jihadists and NOT Assad.

This is why Russia did not counter attack.

The strikes were most likely coordinated between U.S., Russian and Syrian military. I may be wrong, but that is my guess.

President Trump has been strongly against a war in Syria. By doing this he scares the North Koreans and Iran. He hits the false flagers and silences the Trump is a Russian crowd.

What we see on TV is kabuki theater. Certainly with the Sunday morning talk show panels. They are nothing more than a bunch of irrelevant pseudo intellectual want to be politicians and generals that are almost 100% of the time getting it wrong. Don’t waste your time we these con schmucks. Again it’s nothing more than kabuki theater by irrelevant so called “journalists”.

A cockroach at the bottom of the sea is higher than these scum on TV.

[blueplum]

Trump has stated publically and privately that he wants our guys and gals back (figuratively, in time for turkey dinner). With ISIS 90% dead, he has said it's time for the other middle-east nations to take roles in keeping ISIS eliminated, and in pressuring Assad. I trust he still means it. But, he also has to deal with people like Votel, who has a long-view, and people like Haley, who tends to overstep a bit. And, of course, Russia. So he has to posture strategically.

What it is boiling down to is, Iran, Turkey and Russia are all making plays in Syria. Iranian bases in Syria puts Iraq in a squeezehold, and extends Iran's reach to the Mediterranean. That is a problem. But it's Russia that has more influence with Iran than the US does.
Russia wants the ports. They may not care what happens to the interior of Syria and may tend to ignore Iranian expansion including forward military bases. But eventually Iran will make the move to push Russia out. So Russian inaction is a problem for the US, for Iraq and for surrounding allies.

So we need to work with Russia, since they are 'invited guests' of Syria and we're not. You might have noticed for the second time, Russia turned off their missile defense in Syria. Assad using chem weapons puts Russia on the hotseat, since they guaranteed, back in 2013, and again last year, that they would ensure Assad rid himself of them. Assad has embarrassed Putin, twice. Which brings us to using this latest attack as hard leverage on Russia (and an excuse for Russia to) not only to put a shock collar on Assad, but to isolate Iran's expansion. If we now say publically that we are pulling out "in months", Russia has no incentive to act in any direction, and by the time they do act, they and we, will be at a severe disadvantage.