Trump announces U.S. military strikes in Syria
President Trump on Friday announced that he has approved military strikes in Syria against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The announcement follows a suspected chemical gas attack from the Assad regime on a rebel-held town near the Syrian capital last weekend.
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That would be awesome, but unfortunately, would not fit into today's modern warfare....with the exception of the tomahawks. I decommissioned her for the last time in 91, and the final full bore of the 16 inchers was absolutely riveting and something to remember.
So Trump is launching air strikes to champion the children of Syria. The same Syrian children he refused refuge on US soil. What a guy s/
this will hopefully do more for all Syrian people.
something wrong with that?
how do you propose we take in all of Syria?
We are just going by the words of Comey
It's impossible to vett the Syrian refugees. How are we getting records on them from the Syrian govt?
FBI on Difficulty vetting refugees
"FBI Director James Comey added in congressional testimony last month that "a number of people who were of serious concern" slipped through the screening of Iraq War refugees, including two arrested on terrorism-related charges. "There's no doubt that was the product of a less than excellent vetting," he said.
Although Comey said the process has since "improved dramatically," Syrian refugees will be even harder to check because, unlike in Iraq, U.S. soldiers have not been on the ground collecting information on the local population. "If we don't know much about somebody, there won't be anything in our data," he said. "I can't sit here and offer anybody an absolute assurance that there's no risk associated with this."
one of the senior administration officials at Tuesday's briefing acknowledged the limitations inherent in screening refugees from Syria, where it's very difficult to determine something as basic as an applicant's criminal history.
"We do the best with what we have," the official said. "We talk to people about what their criminal histories are, and we hear about that. That's pretty much where we are."
We are just going by the words of Comey
Right, so now trump attacked Syria because of Comey? Skirting the CoC [ph]
I wasn't talking about the missile strikes. My comment was in response to not allowing Syrian refugees. Try to keep up to the context
The smoke is clearing and the NBC correspondents are saying that the attack was basically the minimum the US could have done and still call it an attack.
I thought President Trump told Russia several days ago that the US would be bombing Syria. It's silly that the news acts like this was breaking news. lol
Actually, yes I did know that France would participate. President Macron had reached out to the WH to offer support and to let the US know that France was ready to assist. I didn't hear any reports on the UK but the UK always has our back.
your turn.......
I admit I did a quick search but that doesn't change the fact that it was in the news days ago. I'm chalking this one up as a win for me. You'll have to try and win the next one. I gotta run - different time zone and I can barely keep my eyes open. Cheers
Nonsense. It was the US, UK, and France with combined missiles and aircraft hitting 6-7 sites that we know of including WMD research sites.
even anti-Trump CNN is being more honest about this than the Stalinists at NBC
Gave the Russians time to move their inbed nationals out of harms way. Took out some warehouses and manufacturing facilities. They have enough intel to know where everything is or where it is being moved to. Meant to send the initial message. Much more and worse could follow, including destroying runways.
So I'm sitting in the airport watching CNN and they're talking about how the president failed to notify Congress of the strikes like he was doing something wrong, but he doesn't have to, except for a declaration of war, but then again it is CNN.
No, he doesn't have to, but if he intends this to be open ended as he seems to think, then he is going to have to go to Congress for a new authorization. The old 2001 one to go after Al-Qaeda just doesn't work in Syria.
Ah yes, hours after the attack the armchair quarterbacking begins.
So many geo/sociopolitical and military experts here. Perhaps Trump. May and Macron should be reading Newstalkers so they could be better informed.
I'll send them a note to let them know all the experts are here.
Wonder if these will be as pointless as the last round.
The last one and this action carried out by President Trump, the UK and France will have a lot better and bigger point than Obama's red line in the sand message.
Yawn, and Assad will continue to use chem weapons, we will still have zero coherent strategy, and we will be ever closer to a potential conflict with Russia. We may as well just admit that we don't really care and call it a day.
How many lines has trumptard drawn in north korea? Something about fire and fury? Still hasn't done dick.
No one knows what Kim Jung Un is doing. You don't. I don't and Trump sure as Fuck doesn't.
Is that why Obama turned tail and ran away from his red line, like the cowardly wimp that he is?
I highly doubt that.
How do you know they where pointless?
There may have been more chemical attacks, we don't know. Are you privy to Assad's thoughts?
Did the last one stop the use of chemical weapons, the answer is a pretty clear fuck no, thus it was completely pointless.
Yes we do, there have been numerous since the last missile strike Trump launched (which didn't really cause much in the way of damage). The big difference this time is the Russians are vowing to shoot down our missiles and potentially launch a retaliatory strike, much higher stakes.
Rather than missile strikes, it'd be nice if Trump (or anyone in his administration) could actually lay out something resembling a coherent strategy regarding Syria.
Oh come on Dennis, Obama did something .He backpedalled away from his "red line in the sand" statement as quick as he could and let his palm Putin and the Russians take the initiative to appear to do something and get the kudos .
What do you use when you want to send the very best!