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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs there anyone who actually thinks last night's missile strikes were not solely a distraction
to change the headlines?
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)happens is blamed on this. So at this point when there really is a distraction being thrown out...who can tell since every single event is being classified as such.
Next I'll hear how RUMP engineered the next mass shooting to take headlines away.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Mission Accomplished indeed..especially Homs..which was already in rubble...all in all - the Pentagon wins.....the only adults in the room.....
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)All we did was blow up a few metal buildings that the Syrians had labeled "Chemical Research Facilities." We did not seriously damage the regime's ability to continue killing its own people. Putin may have signed off on this before Trump did it.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)and he's not going to be like Obama blah blah blah. So really there was no point.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)The drumpfian empire is crumbling.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)"distraction"....so sick of that word.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And the necessity of supporting the leader of the free world in this existential fight against the unspeakable horror that is.................................(fill in the blank with the enemy du jour).
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)All redumbliCON presidents need a boogie man to justify their wars.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)That frightening stranger that menaces white people.
shraby
(21,946 posts)former9thward
(32,080 posts)Obama reportedly declined to enforce red line in Syria after Iran threatened to back out of nuclear deal
"When the president announced his plans to attack [the Assad regime] and then pulled back, it was exactly the period in time when American negotiators were meeting with Iranian negotiators secretly in Oman to get the nuclear agreement," Solomon said.
"US and Iranian officials have both told me that they were basically communicating that if the US starts hitting President Assad's forces, Iran's closest Arab ally ... these talks cannot conclude."
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a powerful military arm in Iran, reportedly "would not accept a continued engagement with the US if its closest ally was being hit," Solomon said.
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-red-line-syria-iran-2016-8
Trump does not like the Iran deal so that matter did not affect his decision.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...it was a rather surprising event. SoS John Kerry said "well, if Assad gives up his weapons immediately we won't have to attack", and Assad did so.
Following the August 21, 2013, chemical weapons attack on the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus attributed to Syrian government forces, Kerry became a leading advocate for the use of military force against the Syrian government for what he called "a despot's brutal and flagrant use of chemical weapons."[163]
Kerry said on September 9 in response to a reporter's question about whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could avert a military strike: "He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. Turn it over, all of it, without delay, and allow a full and total accounting for that. But he isn't about to do it, and it can't be done, obviously." This unscripted remark initiated a process that would lead to Syria agreeing to relinquish and destroy its chemical weapons arsenal, as Russia treated Kerry's statement as a serious proposal. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia would work "immediately" to convince Syria relinquish and destroy its large chemical weapons arsenal.[164][165][166][167] Syria quickly welcomed this proposal and on September 14, the UN formally accepted Syria's application to join the convention banning chemical weapons, and separately, the U.S. and Russia agreed on a plan to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of 2014, leading Kerry to declare on July 20, 2014: "we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out."[168] On September 28, the UN Security Council passed a resolution ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning the August 21 Ghouta attack.[169]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry#Syria
Obviously either they didn't get everything or more weapons were made.
democrank
(11,104 posts)In a few days we're going to come to your house and see if you still have those stolen paintings you had in your van last week.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Response to Snake Plissken (Original post)
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)he throws at us. Cohen deal way too big to go away - even with bombing - and who knows how many innocents died. If we only had a lot of surrogates - would blast it out there that with Cohen in Prague - what HAVE they got now to discredit the dossier?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)Unless Trump will be bombing someone every day we will eventually return to discussing his perfidy and nefarious behavior.
triron
(22,020 posts)Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)France and the UK also launched missiles at Syria to change the headlines in our country?
That's laughable.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Not at all. Those strikes are part and parcel of U.S. foreign policy in particular and the western neoliberal project in the middle east generally.
These strikes have little to do with one country (eg the U.S.) let alone one president or even one party.
Was the particular timing chosen as a distraction? Possibly, although I don't think Trump is sharp enough to even make that happen despite his bull-in-a-china-shop style.
BannonsLiver
(16,448 posts)Is there anything Cheetolini and his admin says or does that is credible? Something you can take their word on and feel good about it?
Resounding NOs in both situation.
This admin has no credibility. If they say its Saturday assume they are lying and verify yourself.