The State Department insisted that there were no military-to-military contacts between Syria and the U.S., and Assad’s forces were given no indication of the planned timing of last night’s airstrikes. But even Assad’s tacit acceptance of U.S. and Arab military action against targets inside his country necessarily represents some level of coordination.
Yay . . . Assad “cooperated” with us so we should trust Iran. Love the logic.
Around 50 dead from the strikes. Including some grannies and children. How many IS members in Syria again?
Obama is helping Assad defeat one of his enemies, which only makes Assad stronger.
If the objective is to remove the ISIS as a functioning guerrilla army, then an alliance with Syria would make perfect sense. Might even keep trying to make peace with the Iranian Islamic Republic. But for sure, engage the Kurdish Peshmerga, give them weapons in full measure, and tell them they can keep all the territory they capture.
Kurdistan is the best buffer state to set up among all those Sunni Islamic jihadists, and even the Shi’ite Islamic jihadists would end up respecting them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he also had ISIS’s co-operation as well.
You know, bomb this empty building to make it look like you are doing something.
If he didn’t look for attacks on America within 2 months.
The United States was responding to the clear evidence ...
Uh no, actually it wasn’t at all clear.
And lookee lookee, IS/ISIL/ISIS used chlorine against some 300-400 Iraqi soldiers just a few days ago.
About the only thing that IS clear is that there were chemical weapons in the area...and the “CLEAR” evidence is they came from Iraq. W deserves an apology....
"Evidence" being use of a helicopter, piloted by persons of unknown origin, but presumed to be Syrian army personnel"