Trump launches military strike against Syria

[kvnchrist]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/donald-trump-syria-military/

 

The United States launched a military strike Thursday on a Syrian government airbase in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians earlier in the week.

On President Donald Trump's orders, US warships launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the airbase that was home to the warplanes that carried out the chemical attacks, US officials said.

 

I just wondered what everybody thinks of this.

[gandalftw]

Too little too late.

[Aurielius]

Question: What is the difference between Obama's and Trump's Red Line?

 

Answer: 59 Tomahawks within two days of crossing it.

 

If this and more had been done five years ago, Assad would be on trial in the Hague instead of Damascus. That being said there is always a tendency for 'mission euphoria' after a successful operation which should be tamped down on because it's never the first strike but the subsequent operations that decide the issue. I am of the impression that this is basically a warning shot across Assad's bow.

[gandalftw]

Just another Trump distraction and "America first" goes out the door which is as it should be IMO.He has now committed himself to be the worlds president.Wow who could have seen that coming?Typical with Trump is that it says one thing and does another.

 

Kill the monster and stop the pathetic posturing.Instead of nibbling on the serpents tail remove the head of the serpent.

 

I agree that Obama should have/could have done far more to end the murder of the Syrian people but he didn't.Today Trump is in charge and he chose to attack an airport instead of the murderer.Big balls that.

[Aurielius]

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I agree that Obama should have/could have done far more to end the murder of the Syrian people but he didn't.Today Trump is in charge and he chose to attack an airport instead of the murderer.Big balls that.

 

Wild guess...you have never been involved in any form of operational planning. What you are advocating would take weeks / months to set up meanwhile Assad would deploy more chemical weapons attacks, aside from the fact it would lead to a wider war. The Syrians reportedly lost approx 13 fixed wing assets, if true that is a sizable loss for them.

A surgical response is still better than the prior approach of delivering a lecture that the 'tide of history is against you'.

Just curious, if Obama's deal to remove Syria's chem-warfare assets was the great success that it was claimed to be, where did the Syrians get the ordinance?

 

July 2014 NBC-Meet the Press

“We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out,” -Sec State Kerry.

January 2017 NPR

“We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.”- Susan Rice.

[kvnchrist]

Just another Trump distraction and "America first" goes out the door which is as it should be IMO.He has now committed himself to be the worlds president.Wow who could have seen that coming?Typical with Trump is that it says one thing and does another.

 

Kill the monster and stop the pathetic posturing.Instead of nibbling on the serpents tail remove the head of the serpent.

 

I agree that Obama should have/could have done far more to end the murder of the Syrian people but he didn't.Today Trump is in charge and he chose to attack an airport instead of the murderer.Big balls that.

I don't think he committed to anything other than to restore the brand name America once had as something that should be reckoned with, instead of something that sould be ignored. I think President Obama tried so hard not to be President Bush that he forgot that reality doesn't react well in a void.

For a long time the world has had the US to go to to put out the various fires that spring up and that is not something that can be removed without preperation. What President Obama did was to yank the US out of world events and that caused a rift that no one was prepared for. The world, as we see it today is what was left and Syria is what it is when a brutal dictator gets his way, with two powerful allies at it's beck and call.

You can say what you will about President Trump, but you can't say that he didn't get the attention of those people who thought they had free rein to perpetrate anything and everything they wanted to secure victory for themselves.

[TheMastersSon]

Here's a fun exercise: using Google, try and find Assad's response to the charge that he used chemical weapons on his own country.

 

Ready? Go.

 

We looked, and looked, and all we found were endless heartwrenching and highly histrionic stories about the attack, with absolutely no quotes, responses or rebuttals from anyone who was accused of it.

 

So imo it's an exact repeat of what was done to Saddam Hussein in Iraq, i.e. almost certainly infiltration of U.S. and/or Israeli security forces in Assad's regime. He had and still has less than no reason to use these weapons if he's interested in holding his position as president.

Edited April 7, 2017 by TheMastersSon

[gandalftw]

Lovely posts all.This is nothing more than pumpkinhead's attempt to increase it's approval rating.

Instead of attacking assets it should be attacking Assad where it's ass sets.Hehe..

[TheMastersSon]

Our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan turned out so well, didn't they? Our Pentagon can't wait to repeat the catastrophe. AGAIN.

[Aurielius]

Here's a fun exercise: using Google, try and find Assad's response to the charge that he used chemical weapons on his own country.

 

Ready? Go.

 

We looked, and looked, and all we found were endless heartwrenching and highly histrionic stories about the attack, with absolutely no quotes, responses or rebuttals from anyone who was accused of it.

 

So imo it's an exact repeat of what was done to Saddam Hussein in Iraq, i.e. almost certainly infiltration of U.S. and/or Israeli security forces in Assad's regime. He had and still has less than no reason to use these weapons if he's interested in holding his position as president.

At first I thought..satire? Nope ...he is actually serious.

Intriguing logic: The absence of denial equates to innocence.

I didn't know that guilty villains were inherently loquacious, is this from the Snidley Whiplash School of Criminology?

 

Now we enter the Twilight Zone...que Rod Sterling

Yup... the US / Israeli security forces infiltrated the Syrian Air Force, borrowed a jet, then bombed the rebels we support to pin the crime on Assad.

 

Now I've got it, not satire...comedic farce. :facepalm: