Did you see this?
Is it supposed to sound worse if he gasses his “own people”? His “own people” he’s accused of gassing are ISIS pretending to be freedom fighting rebels. Remember the ones McCain loves to pose with?
No UN resolutions.
No “Coalition of the Whatever”.
No red-lines.
No endless debate in the media.
No talking.
Just action, swift, measured, and proportional.
Perfect execution by a brand-new team.
Strength!
Trump!
Another author who gets it exactly right.
I sincerely hope so, but time will tell.
What if that is the case. Makes more sense than gassing a bunch of civilians.
Sherlock Holmes would have asked, “Who benefits?”
Assad had every reason not to do this.
The rebels had every reason to falsely pin it on Assad...
Atrocity propaganda or lies have been at the forefront of almost every war in the 20th century. Belgian babies bayoneted or hands cut off. The USS Maine sinking blamed on the Spanish. The Germans claimed the Poles attacked a radio station in Germany, provoking their invasion. Gulf of Tonkin. The CIA painted US planes in Cuban AF colors for Bay of Pigs to make it look like this was a Cuban internal revolt. The Kuwaiti babies thrown from incubators.
It’s more BS to morally justify a war they planned for other reasons. It makes the war they want magically transform into a moral crusade. We aren’t fighting for a neocon revision of the middle east to make the Saudis and Gulf States happy. No, we are fighting for poor little gassed children.
They always say “truth is the first casualty...”.
The gas attack killed 70. The war killed half a million. If we are going to get worked up about the one, you'd think we'd get a little worked up about the other.
The war was launched by the Turks, Saudis, Qataris, and Obama's State Department. It has killed half a million people. Its purpose was to bring down Assad. To do that, they recruited jihadis from around the middle east and from muslim populations in the west. The result is that, aside from destroying Syria, they have committed genocide against non-muslim populations that have been there for 2 thousand years.
The rebels are Al Qaeda and ISIS.
There are probably good reasons to bring down Assad, but not when your replacement is Al Qaeda, ISIS, or Muslim Brotherhood. So, in other words, we have killed half a million people and had we won we'd have only made things worse. Is it better to have Assad pointing missiles at Israel, or Al Qaeda pointing missiles at Israel? Is the difference worth 500,000 Syrian lives and 3 million refugees unleashed on Europe?
“Thursday’s precision strike sent a robust message.”
Sure did. And everyone got it. America is at the top of the global pyramid. Still true.
Trump Got it Right on Syria
If you’re a globalist.