President Trump Orders Air Strike Against Syrian Airbase

T-Rex outlines the appropriate distribution of responsibility for the chemical weapons attack in Syria.

Metaphor – A dangerously moldy red book keeps reappearing on the boardroom desk (the mid-east). No-one in the room will take responsibility for its origination. U.S. President Trump walks into the room, picks up the book and angrily, publicly, throws it in the trash.

Trump then looks sternly at the most influential task management in the room (Putin/Assad) and tells them deliberately: ‘if the book reappears they will be held to account’.

The entire organization (world) watched, and saw, the event. President Trump has assigned responsibility for the future, and accountability for the consequence.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com...rex-tillerson/

This is fun. Let's do it again. So what you are saying is all countries have nukes so that the US won't attack them. What happens when a wack job like Kim Un start firing nukes at us, Japan or S Korea? Originally Posted by gnadfly

Same thing that would happen if say Pakistan were stupid enough to Nuke us....are they really wack jobs for wanting something that would insure their country from a military invasion?



.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com...rex-tillerson/

Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDB

Stupid Metaphor. God Damn.

Unless you and others are prepared to pay more in taxes and send sons and daughters to die in Sryia , you're just another holler monkey.

Where the fuck is the snowflake, lustylad? How about that lustylady? You willing to send troops to Syria, you willing to actually start paying for these military incursions?

TRUMP is MY PRESIDENT!!!!

TRUMP is MY PRESIDENT!!!! Originally Posted by NoTell

Jesus H Christ...he is everybody's President .

And will be for another four years unless something happens to him...

Does not mean we can not criticize him for flip flopping.

He tells Obama how stupid getting involved in Syria would be (I agreed) and turns around and is getting us involved in Syria.

Stupid as fuck.

And a fucking asshole!

This is fun. Let's do it again. So what you are saying is all countries have nukes so that the US won't attack them. What happens when a wack job like Kim Un start firing nukes at us, Japan or S Korea? Originally Posted by gnadfly

http://www.vox.com/world/2017/4/10/1...er-barrel-bomb

Let's stick with Syria...looks like a potential new policy Trump has. So it does appear we are inching closer and closer to an escalation of the war in Syria

I usually don't read Vox articles especially by Ezra and Iglesias. They are just a front for the DNC, like Media Matters.

Cut and paste what you think is relevant, Mr Little BigKotex.

I usually don't read Vox articles especially by Ezra and Iglesias. They are just a front for the DNC, like Media Matters.

Cut and paste what you think is relevant, Mr Little BigKotex. Originally Posted by gnadfly

Q: Is the red line for this White House chemical warfare? Is conventional warfare enough to get the president to go further than this White House is going?
SPICER: I think the president has been very clear that there are a number of lines that were crossed last week. He’s not going to sit down — you saw this with the last administration, they drew these red lines, and then the red lines were run over. ... The answer is that if you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb into innocent people, I think you will see a response from this president. That is unacceptable.


Barrel bombs are containers filled with explosives and sometimes metal, dropped from helicopters, often on civilian areas. Assad’s air force uses them extremely frequently — his forces dropped 13,000 of them in 2016 alone, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights. That’s roughly 36 barrel bombs a day.


By comparison, the chemical weapons attack last week was the first use of banned nerve agents by the Syrian government since 2013. Given the rarity of such attacks, threatening US retaliation for each one makes a certain kind of sense — especially if your goal is only to send a signal that chemical weapons use is unacceptable without getting more deeply involved in the civil war.