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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn a scale of 1-10 the effectiveness of the STRIKE is a 1..good old demented Trump...
4AM here and Kal Perry on MSNBC says on a scale of 1-10 the effectiveness of the STRIKE is a 1. Trump and Bolton going rogue and distracting. Syrians in street celebrating. DEMs pissed he did not go to congress. KILL KILL KILL as good of a distraction as there is...
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)Republicans know how to distract. I wish Dems could be more foreceful!
dchill
(38,561 posts)Or piss him off. I imagine they talked it over pretty thoroughly. They had plenty of time.
BritVic
(262 posts)dchill
(38,561 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I mean, really, what kind of question IS THIS?
Where is your Patriotism, Ober?
You either have the stomach to Slaughter People to Defend Your Country, or you don't, you know?
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Personally, I'm still reeling from the footage of those dying children in Aleppo last year.....and now more to come....
oberliner
(58,724 posts)From taking no action to taking strong action and everything in between.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)to one of these incidents. Lob some missiles and keep aircraft high enough to avoid anti-aircraft fire and leave. Maybe it's a slight step up from bombing an empty airfield, but that's about it.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Than this
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)This will do nothing to stop the chemical attacks,
and there will be more chemical attacks.
JI7
(89,279 posts)JI7
(89,279 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)Two weeks ago, the idiot went public saying that he was going to pull troops out of Syria.
Had a Democratic president done that, and Syria utilize the gas attacks like they did, Republicans and the media would have absolutely eviscerated that President.
ashredux
(2,609 posts)The strikes] are unlikely to alter the overall trajectory of the Syrian civil war and will not prevent Assad from continuing to slaughter his rebelling population.
Jennifer Cafarella, Institute for the Study of War
Farmer-Rick
(10,216 posts)You know, like Trump and May are big and tough now. We have to vote them in again, no matter how corrupt they might be, cause they are going to start a war for us.
Nothing like badly reading from an obviously jittery prompter to then dropping bombs on abused citizenry to stop a a tyrant from dropping other kinds of bombs on said citizenry. Yeah that's the ticket to reelection and ending the Russian investigation.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Where is the evidence? Just got through reading: "How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the U.S. to War" By Max Blumenthal. It's too long to copy and paste but take a look if you want.
lark
(23,166 posts)It was a Michael Cohen/Mueller/Stormy Daniels strike. If he plans on firing Rosenstein, it will be Monday. Of course, I'd bet he's playing golf this weekend, as always, so it will happen Monday if it's going to happen.