Posted on 04/10/2017 1:01:10 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Trump’s tomahawk missile strike in Syria has most commentators agreeing that it’s an international game changer, sending a message to bad actors from the Middle East to North Korea: there’s “a new sheriff in town” and the American superpower is back. What is missing from these analyses is a recognition of the strike’s repercussions domestically. For the Syrian strike is also a game changer for President Trump, who until now has been the target of unprecedented and unhinged political attacks.
The Syrian strike blows up the central myth of the Democrats’ resistance to the Trump presidency. This is the accusation that America’s new commander-in-chief is a pawn in Putin’s pocket, a closet colluder with the Russian beast. The accusation always had a lunatic ring but since it was based on speculation about what Trump might do, it was difficult to definitively refute. Not anymore. The strike in Syria has blown it as sky high as the debris from the Syrian aircraft the tomahawks destroyed. Henceforth, Trump’s critics are more likely to warn of an imminent war with Russia than an imminent capitulation to Putin’s whims.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Yep, and Russia has taken a war stance.
Yay, I really wanted the John McCain/Lindsey Graham/Hillary Clinton foreign policy for Syria.
Garbage. The 'Russian collusion' was already fading and it never went anywhere in the first place.
Henceforth, Trump’s critics are more likely to warn of an imminent war with Russia than an imminent capitulation to Putin’s whims.
Oh, really. Then why are McCain and company calling for more military action against Syria? These critics want confrontation with Russia.
Link didn’t work.
Russia is too broke to go to war.
They already were.
You must be very disappointed, then.
Thank you.
Some in the Senate are starting an effort to try to muzzle and control the Trump Administration and Defense.
Senators differ on Trump’s use of military force, want Congress part of future action
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/09/senators-differ-on-trumps-use-military-force-want-congress-part-future-action.html
Very interesting in light of some of our foreign enemies’ likely plans for launches of nuclear weapons at our coastal cities in the near future. Restrain our military leaders and Executive Branch from doing what is best now at our peril tomorrow. Choose absolute stability in our markets today for VIP investors or risk our major cities a few months from now?
McCain does seem to be one sick puppy. Is it a combination of lusting for war as an unhinged former POW and his total animosity to President Trump for succeeding where he failed miserably?
What's bothersome about that isn't McCain. It's that he hasn't been locked in a padded cell by now. It's that there are way too many who agree with him. Nikki Haley, it turns out, is a McCainiac. What the +ell is she still doing in the UN? Why are almost all pols still saying that the Kiev gov is legitimate and condemning Russia for not letting it take over Crimea?
This week is important. Hope and prayer is that we don't lose President Trump to the dark side. We can keep him true to his supporters if Tillerson can set up a dialogue while he's in Russia and those who really want to disintegrate ISIS get together, put everything else aside, and do so. We also have to wait and see how the chairs are reshuffled in the administration. We lose if the swamp creatures who've infiltrated don't lose their power. We lose if any more Deplorables leave or have their roles diminished.
Now's the only time to save the administration. With the DC swamp creatures on a two-week break, hopefully President Trump will focus on this and do something about those who are moving him toward the mainstream globalist agenda. And that includes putting the nation above family ties.
When neocons say “Trump’s bombing destroys the Trump-Russia connection argument”, they are conceding that they actually care enough about Democrat lies to kill people, destroy assets used to fight al queda, spend precious American weapons, and risk war with an ally against Islamic terrorism.
Keep your eyes on McMaster who is very, very, good friends with Susan Rice and wouldn't have his job if Susan Rice hadn't leaked classified information (true or false, we still don't know what exactly was leaked) to get Flynn fired. McMaster marches in lockstep with Peterus each one always promoting the other, too.
He's also the one behind Bannon being not on the NSC and the only one who can lead Trump into a trap that will either keep him tied down like Gulliver for his whole four years or even get the blowing in the wind Vichy Republicans to go along with democrat demands for special prosecutors and impeachment for some sort of crap related to Syria or the consequences of being in Syria.
JMHo
“As a result, the president will be judged by more and more Americans on the basis of what he actually does rather than the paranoid fantasies that have hitherto been staples of the Never Trumpers, left and right”
Good article by the always sensible and observant David Horowitz. Critics here would do well to read it
I agree. Unfortunately, not only are the minds too often made up and only willing to accept ideas that confirm their bias, they jump the gun on those who essentially agree with them and miss their point.
YES! Thank God the neocons are back at the table!
All this crap about “putting America first” fades like Lena Dunham’s pledge for virginity if you put up a tear jerking photo of someone, somewhere, who died due to chemical weapons, unleashed by someone, for some reason.
Never mind that the campaign promises were that it is not our responsibility to police the world.
My God people. When does it register that we are not tasked with rectifying every uncomfortable world situation? We have neither the military might NOR (more importantly) the moral capabilities to do so.
Tell ya what. Let’s be sure we actually obey the Geneva Conventions, quit murdering our own citizens, kill the information gathering police state and intrusionary government we have, pay attention to the bill of rights, cease stealing from our own citizenry and creating an privileged class, and then actually OBEY THE CONSTITUTION WHEN IT SAYS CONGRESS MUST DECLARE WAR and quit this STUPID STUPID STUPID bull**** about “well it is not really war.... it is just a limited military action.”
Once we get all that straightened out, THEN we jerk up Assad and start telling him what he can and cannot do regarding the morality of his actions towards those under his leadership. Deal?
Yes, isolationism worked out so well in the 1930s that we must do it again.
I generally don’t respond to posts where somebody tells me what I mean. It’s an amature trick to hastily construct a strawman.
Here, this may unconfuse you some and then you’ll figure it out.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Ooooh, a specific enumerated rights and responsibility of congress.
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