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The issue is not the lack of clarity about a US red line.

The issue is that the US has an emotionally centered red line with easily obtained chemicals on the wrong side of it.

ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Iran...every rogue nation and every terrorist group in the world learned a valuable lesson. They learned the might of the US will be employed over chemical attacks...against states.

I'm sure even the drug cartels in South America noticed.

Likely dozens of plans are being developed to bring down the wrath of US power on many regimes. False flags will abound. Likely Russian, Iranian and Norklandian intelligence are working with groups now.

Once attack may not do it, but two definitely will.

Helicopters and chlorine are easy to come by.

1 posted on 04/15/2018 7:26:11 AM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

The moralists are in the drivers seat.

The realists are relegated to awaiting their turn, again.


2 posted on 04/15/2018 7:27:49 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Blur is good, keep them guessing.


3 posted on 04/15/2018 7:28:45 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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"What’s unclear is where that red line now stands."

People are confused? But...but...0bama was SO GOOD at drawing those red lines when it came to Syria!

*SPIT*


4 posted on 04/15/2018 7:33:19 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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This whole bombing stinks.

Who gives a crap about Syria?

When Erdogan, CNN, and everyone in the Swamp is praising Trump, somethings WRONG.


5 posted on 04/15/2018 7:34:29 AM PDT by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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-Please list the terrorist organizations which have known chemical and biological warfare research centers and storage facilities.

-Can you cite one instance of terrorists using helicopters to drop chemical weapons?

-Do you have ISR, radar or IFF recordings of any terrorist organization conducting an airborne chemical weapon attack?

Your claims have an insurmountable burden of proof yet somehow you claim Syria doesn’t conduct the chemical attacks. I call that a lack of objectivity and bias.

The only “false flags” here are posters claiming Syria, Iran and Russia et al would not attack civilians with WMDs.


8 posted on 04/15/2018 7:40:09 AM PDT by Justa
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Don’t telegraph where the dang red line is make them wonder if they have crossed it why any civilized leader would use sarin or chlorine gas deserves to get the holy hell bombed out of him IMHO!


9 posted on 04/15/2018 7:41:15 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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“Every city in the Middle East that has a water purification system probably has some chlorine. It is a common industrial chemical,”


10 posted on 04/15/2018 7:44:41 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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You're point is so valid that we need to spread it far and wide. What happens when Palis stage a chlorine attack and blame it on Israel? Or will Israel use chemical weapons and blame the Palis for a staged attack. etc ad nauseum.

President Trump made a big blunder here. He doesn't make many. (Nikki Haley was one) He announced he was pulling out of Syria before doing so. It gave the Masters of War time to stage this event and reverse that.

What I think back to is when Khaddafi defeated the "rebels" and NATO voted to give air cover so they could safely return home. Instead, NATO annihilated Khadaffi and Libya.

11 posted on 04/15/2018 7:44:54 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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Keep them guessing and make them run for their rotten, evil rodent lives.

Our President knows the risks. He knows what he is doing. I trust him because many good and righteous prayers have been spoken over him and he believes in those prayers even though he—like all of us—is very flawed.


15 posted on 04/15/2018 7:49:14 AM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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This does not meet the high standards set by the Obama-Clinton air campaign against Libya.

/sarc


19 posted on 04/15/2018 8:21:05 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Kaslin

This thread includes a lot of the train of thought I was referring to.


21 posted on 04/15/2018 2:34:02 PM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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