Quote:The problem is that there isn't any militant response.
(04-07-2017 05:46 AM)Akwesi Wrote: US: We're cool with Assad staying.
Assad: Cool, now I can do whatever I want.
Trump: *bitchslap" It doesn't work like that.
For now, at least, that's all there's to it. I understand the largely negative response here, but it's disproportionate. This isn't a declaration of war, it's just feedback. I'd be surprised if this goes much further. Assad will take it down a notch and Trump will cool off. Nothing is fucked.

Quote:Douglas Sikes You are so wrong here it's not even funny. To sit back and do nothing would be an obama play. The hammers of justice just fell in a bad dude. They will tread lightly before acting again. Finally someone will take us seriously. Assad gassed children for Christ sake. You're looking like a fool with this position.
Ryan DeClue President Trump took action against evil. President Trump has yet to be wrong about anything he's said or done. He does 1 thing you don't agree with and you turn on him? We have a word for that. Liberal.
Justin VanBibber Then hop the fuck off, Chemical weapons were used on children. He blew the fucking spot up that launched those weapons. He's not fucking around and NO it's not the "NEO-CONS" if you don't know by now Trump makes his own decisions you don't know Trump.
Kristoff Stinionies I'll be god damned cause I do live in a fucking world full of abortions, and whore mongering Governments that gas children to death. Doesn't anyone have some god damn balls or take this shit personally? I hope he drops 60 more on their fucking ass... You're telling me if you saw someone in the street doing this shit to children you'd just stand by and watch? Fuck that shit
Quote:Alissa Twilley Akers I think President Trump did the right thing....cannot sit back and turn a blind eye to crimes against civilians, innocent babies. I always agree with you Ann Coulter, just not oh this.
Sharon LaDouce Hollis Hey Ann, you know better than this! We have military over there that need to be protected also!!! I'm happy he did this!!!
Tonya Mauck Ebert Trump is NOT destroying his presidency, he is leaving his marks where needed. Or we could be next. He has to prove that America will hold strong, defend against the enemy, and stand tall. He is sending a message, where Obama "drew" a red line in the sand, Trump crossed the red line and is delivering a blow with an iron fist to show we mean business. . A man of his words!!
Quote:Sandi Strom President Trump just sent a message to the evil in the world that he isn't going to draw a red line and say "don't do anything naughty because we will be mad" !!!! God Bless President Trump.
Christy Jones Carter Oh shut the hell up about President Trump...He is defending the LIVES of the innocent HUMANS who were killed by chemical weapons and he is trying to cripple Syria so they can't launch anymore!!! He would have never had to do this if the ballless Obama kept to his red line threat!!!
Quote:Marco Rubio is in favor of the strikes and John MCCain feels there is balance starting to return to Washington. With support like that Mr. Trump you are likely headed in the wrong direction.
(04-07-2017 09:03 AM)Ghost Tiger Wrote: I have been on the inside of enough security operations to know that if you're not on the inside... then you don't even know what you don't know.
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(04-07-2017 09:27 AM)philosophical_recovery Wrote: After sleeping and reading Taleb this morning, I'm doubling down on my thoughts that assure me.
Obama would've spent hours probably, agonizing over this, writing a stupid ass speech that was then re-written 50 times by various white house lackeys, shed a crocodile tear, gone to the gym and lifted 5lb dumbbells, get pegged by michelle, and then go on stage and whine for an hour about peace and diversity and bullshit. And nobody would've listened. Then, he'd go back to his meeting room and watch drones blow up civvies and relax with some golf and biden bringing along some 12 year old boys and girls for pizza play.
Trump was too busy. He knew what he was going to do. Knew that there was low risk of civilian death. Had someone throw together a short quip. Made it seem like this was deeply troubling. Meanwhile, he's been organizing the real issues, which are the snakes in his den. This buys him some time and respect for everyone to shut the fuck up while he solves other problems.
Are boots on the ground in Syria? No?
Then I'm not getting excited about this anymore.
(04-07-2017 09:36 AM)rockoman Wrote:(04-07-2017 09:27 AM)philosophical_recovery Wrote: After sleeping and reading Taleb this morning, I'm doubling down on my thoughts that assure me.
Obama would've spent hours probably, agonizing over this, writing a stupid ass speech that was then re-written 50 times by various white house lackeys, shed a crocodile tear, gone to the gym and lifted 5lb dumbbells, get pegged by michelle, and then go on stage and whine for an hour about peace and diversity and bullshit. And nobody would've listened. Then, he'd go back to his meeting room and watch drones blow up civvies and relax with some golf and biden bringing along some 12 year old boys and girls for pizza play.
Trump was too busy. He knew what he was going to do. Knew that there was low risk of civilian death. Had someone throw together a short quip. Made it seem like this was deeply troubling. Meanwhile, he's been organizing the real issues, which are the snakes in his den. This buys him some time and respect for everyone to shut the fuck up while he solves other problems.
Are boots on the ground in Syria? No?
Then I'm not getting excited about this anymore.
Are boots on the ground in Syria?
Yes!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-11...aith-trump
Quote:How the Clintons Sold Out U.S. National Interests to the Putin Regime Secretary of State Clinton meets with Russian President Putin in 2010. (Photo: RIA Novost/Alexei Nikolsky/Pool/via Reuters) SHARE ARTICLE ON FACEBOOKSHARE TWEET ARTICLETWEET PLUS ONE ARTICLE ON GOOGLE PLUS+1 PRINT ARTICLE ADJUST FONT SIZEAA by DEROY MURDOCK April 7, 2017 4:00 AM Kremlin-crazed Trumpophobes snored as Hillary and Bill made Russia great again. The Democrats and old-guard news media (forgive the redundancy) are pathologically obsessed with the hypothesis that Team Trump and Russia rigged last November’s presidential election. If Donald J. Trump so much as played Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slav on his stereo, these leftists deduce, he was in cahoots with the Kremlin. Meanwhile, the same folks who spy a KGB agent behind every filing cabinet in Trump’s White House are aggressively apathetic about Hillary and Bill Clinton’s policies, decisions, and actions that gave aid and comfort to Russia. Hillary’s much-mocked “Russian reset” established the tone for the Clintons’ coziness with the Kremlin. On March 6, 2009, during a trip to Geneva, she presented Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov a small, red button. Hillary thought it was emblazoned with the Russian word for “reset.” Her team mistranslated and the button actually read “overload.” Nonetheless, Clinton and Lavrov jointly pressed the symbolic button. And a new era in U.S.–Russian relations erupted.
(04-06-2017 09:21 PM)Kona Wrote:(04-06-2017 09:15 PM)MMX2010 Wrote: FOX news just played President Trump's explanation video. It's not on YouTube yet, otherwise I would post it.
He began by saying Assad used those chemical weapons, and that "no child of God should suffer a miserable death like that".
My impression is that he was deeply saddened by the images of those dead children, and ordered what he hopes will be a one-strike-fixes-everything approach.
In short, I agree with Jim Acosta's Tweet, posted by Roosh.
Speaking only for myself, hearing his explanation made me far less angry with him. Maybe you'll feel the same when you watch.
Here's the statement:
Aloha!
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(04-07-2017 09:43 AM)Edmund Ironside Wrote:(04-06-2017 09:21 PM)Kona Wrote:(04-06-2017 09:15 PM)MMX2010 Wrote: FOX news just played President Trump's explanation video. It's not on YouTube yet, otherwise I would post it.
He began by saying Assad used those chemical weapons, and that "no child of God should suffer a miserable death like that".
My impression is that he was deeply saddened by the images of those dead children, and ordered what he hopes will be a one-strike-fixes-everything approach.
In short, I agree with Jim Acosta's Tweet, posted by Roosh.
Speaking only for myself, hearing his explanation made me far less angry with him. Maybe you'll feel the same when you watch.
Here's the statement:
Aloha!
(04-07-2017 09:27 AM)philosophical_recovery Wrote: Obama would've spent hours probably, agonizing over this, writing a stupid ass speech that was then re-written 50 times by various white house lackeys, shed a crocodile tear, gone to the gym and lifted 5lb dumbbells, get pegged by michelle, and then go on stage and whine for an hour about peace and diversity and bullshit. And nobody would've listened. Then, he'd go back to his meeting room and watch drones blow up civvies and relax with some golf and biden bringing along some 12 year old boys and girls for pizza play.
(04-07-2017 10:10 AM)DamienCasanova Wrote: It looked like Trump Derangement Syndrome mutated last night into a new form of the mental maladay, i'll call it DJTDS, Donald "Jewish" Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's quite disturbing how many of you were so quick to disavow, and cut and run after one news report you don't like. With supporters like some of you, who needs enemies?
(04-07-2017 10:10 AM)DamienCasanova Wrote: It's quite disturbing how many of you were so quick to disavow, and cut and run after one news report you don't like. With supporters like some of you, who needs enemies?
(04-07-2017 10:19 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:(04-07-2017 10:10 AM)DamienCasanova Wrote: It looked like Trump Derangement Syndrome mutated last night into a new form of the mental maladay, i'll call it DJTDS, Donald "Jewish" Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's quite disturbing how many of you were so quick to disavow, and cut and run after one news report you don't like. With supporters like some of you, who needs enemies?
Many opposed Hillary & the globalists during the election.
Hillary & the globalists are in favour of this military action.
I'm at least being consistent by opposing Hillary & co. before & after.
Quote:If anyone else has noticed, Trump has been meeting with the Kings of Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia etc and formed a Middle East "Freedom" coalition with Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE etc. So this isn't coming out of nowhere, he's been setting up something like this for a while, trying to bring peace to the region and acting on the interests of the majority of peaceful countries in the region.