Posted on 04/14/2018 8:04:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
To strike Syria, or not to strike Syria.
As of Thursday evening, Donald Trump, our tweeter in chief, is keeping the world, the Russians and Syria's dictator-in-chief Bashar al-Assad guessing.
On Wednesday, President Trump said U.S. missiles "will be coming" to visit Syria in retaliation for its government's alleged use of chemical weapons on the Syrian town of Douma on April 7.
On Thursday, Trump hedged a little, tweeting that he "Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all!"
Later he tweeted, "We'll see what happens."
Trump being Trump, we won't know what will happen until he makes it happen.
Meanwhile, everyone in the media and politics has a different opinion about what we and our allies should or should not do militarily to punish Assad for his latest crime against humanity.
In some conservative and Republican circles, I've been hearing that old familiar question - "What would Ronald Reagan do?"
I like to turn that around and ask, "What did Ronald Reagan do? What did he do 32 years ago this week?"
On April 14, 1986 my father sent a powerful message to Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi, the leading international thug of the day, that made Qaddafi behave for the next two decades.
For years Qaddafi had been sponsoring terrorism against American troops and citizens around the world and also financing Muslim rebels in the Philippines, the IRA, Palestinian guerrillas and even the Black Panthers in the USA.
Increasingly tough economic sanctions on Libya and the freezing of its overseas assets didn't impress Qaddafi and on April 4, 1986 he ordered his terrorists to bomb a dance hall in West Berlin known to be frequented by American soldiers.
Nine days later my father got Qaddafi's full attention.
At 2 a.m. Libyan time, about 100 U.S. Air Force and Navy warplanes hit five military targets and "terrorism centers" in Tripoli and Benghazi.
My father's message to Qaddafi lasted less than an hour. But one of the targets U.S. planes obliterated - the most important one - was one of Qaddafi's homes.
Qaddafi and family were elsewhere, but he got the message my father wanted him to get - "We know where you and your family live and any time we want to take you out, we can."
If I could give advice to President Trump about what to do in Syria, it would be this:
If you think we need to do something in Syria to show Bashar al-Assad we do not approve of his use of chemical weapons against civilians, you have to make him feel it.
Taking out a Syrian airbase or blowing up some Russian planes on the ground is nothing, Mr. President.
You have to make Assad know we know where he lives and that any time we want we can take him out with a missile strike targeted at his morning grapefruit bowl.
We have eyes on the ground in Syria. We know which palace or home Bashar al-Assad and his family are staying in at any given time.
Blowing one of them up with a cruise missile at 2 a.m. will be a wake-up call Vladimir Putin's favorite dictator won't be able to ignore.
I was deployed to the Sinai during this strike. I sat behind a dozen sandbags with my 6 shot, 4” Smith and Wesson 38 Special for 3 days “protecting the perimeter” of our base. Good times...
Finally someone gets it. While all the chicken-littles are running around scratching up every quote they can find where Trump spoke against intervention, he has accomplished a much greater strategic purpose. The message has been sent, loud and clear, that Reagan’s US is back. No more red lines, no more bowing to tyrants, no more weak, corrupt politicians masquerading as diplomats. The message was:
“President Trump is not screwing around with you guys. He does not blink and he does not pre-announce his plans, he simply acts with strength and effectiveness”.
And you know how was listening very intently? Kim Jong Un and Ayatollah Khameini, that’s who.
We’re not chicken littles OK. Maybe some of those missiles can take out the Mexican drug cartels.
Excellent point.
Vanquish our enemies:
Well said....
Thanks Drew for posting these powerful photos.
Indeed, the strike last night fully supported ISIS.
SAD !
bigbob,
so you think we should continue supporting the jihadists ?
Maybe these are your friends
YOU'RE FULL OF IT!!!
Putin sent muslim Chechens to kill Christians in Ukraine. A whole GRU company of them got blown up in the early Donetsk airport battles by the Ukrainian air force. You should remember the morgue photos of them stacked up like cord wood. Not that a Putinist like you would care about that.
Oh, FFS, Chechens were fighting on both sides in McCain's Ukrainian coup and you know it. They just like fighting.
There isn't much left of ISIS to help.
There sole reason ground troops remain in Syria is to finish off ISIS.
They are mine too, and they are President Trump's and his administration's too.
You must have forgotten that Barack Hussein 0bama the worst president ever is the one that created ISIS and not President Trump. He got rid of them, you ignoramus and #Never Trumper
Isn’t Michael a never-Trumper?
Finally someone gets it. While all the chicken-littles are running around scratching up every quote they can find where Trump spoke against intervention, he has accomplished a much greater strategic purpose. The message has been sent, loud and clear, that Reagan’s US is back. No more red lines, no more bowing to tyrants, no more weak, corrupt politicians masquerading as diplomats. The message was:
“President Trump is not screwing around with you guys. He does not blink and he does not pre-announce his plans, he simply acts with strength and effectiveness”.
And you know how was listening very intently? Kim Jong Un and Ayatollah Khameini, that’s who.
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More boisterous dreaming...but if it helps you sleep better at night believing this...well.....ok. This country is a lot more war weary than when Reagan took office in 1980. Trump (assuming he wins in 2020) will be locked in a very tight race. He’ll need every vote he can get. If he thinks he can be the reincarnation of GWB on budgets and foreign policy and still win, then he’s in for a rude awakening. There are people in this nation who’ll never vote Democrat, but if they feel betrayal concerning Trumps promises, they’ll stay home. Trump can’t afford to lose very many (if any) of these people.
Seems we are sure trying our best to protect the jihadists in Syria.
McCain must be pleased
rogue CIA too
neocons creaming in their pants
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