She sounds like a 7th grade ESL student.
i might be willing to take this serious IF the missiles had actually done any REAL DAMAGE to the airfield already in use.
and if Putin wasn’t called and advised of the attack thus alerting the Syrian government who were able TO MOVE ALL THEIR FUNCTIONING fighters out of harms way.
and if the Russians Syria’s greatest allies had used their s-300’s and their s-400’s missile defense systems which would have destroyed ALL incoming missiles.
and if the puppet didnt lie about his reasons for doing things every time he opens his mouth…but…other than that…i cant understand why anyone might be suspicious of how it all went down.
Meaningless act of well-timed distraction.
What pressure? We tell them in advance of the missile attack, Assad has plenty of time to move assets and personnel; after strike video shows that the runway is not hit, hangers and ammo bunkers and more importantly military jets, are un-touched. So we blow up a few barracks and latrines and a mess hall. This was done for pure domestic political purposes by a “president” who has had a horrible first 70 or so days. And now Trumpski knows all he has to do to look “Presidential” in the eye of the main stream media is to bomb an empty air field. We will see more of this, as empty, un-focused military action replaces Tweets as his preferred method of distraction.
Considering the timing of this event–in the midst of an escalating Russia collusion scandal and cratering support and poll numbers–and the fact this action is exactly opposite what DJT has been shouting for years, I’m not inclined to believe he was moved by the photos of harmed and dead children to take this action. How I would like to be wrong.
But but … the small, beautiful babies and the little children! The alt-right is generally mad b/c who would ever describe would-be, brown-eyed terrorists as “beautiful” (although in all fairness, that is one of Trump’s 47 vocabulary words, so give him a break guys).
Trump got a little praise from this (even from now useful idiots like Fareed Zakaria, of all people), so he’ll do more.
And the media seem to be in love with Tomahawk Missiles. This country has learned fucking NOTHING from the Iraq War.
Didn’t Trump viciously and decisively speak against allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. just after the horrible photo of the dead toddler at Lesbos went round the world?
Wow, really. Follow the oil $
This just seems like agitprop. Trump gets to look tough by bombing some real estate and Russia gets to get their back up, ostensibly “outraged” by Trump’s actions.
Nothing to see here. Let’s just forget about Manafort, Page, Flynn, Sessions, Kushner, etc, and their connections to Russia - that they all lied about.
That’s pretty much what the Washington Post had to say too. The headline talked about Trump being moved by the war porn he was shown, but the body of the article swings very clearly this way:
"Horrific images were not the only reason military action made sense for Trump. Whatever his concern for the people of Syria — a country whose refugees would not be able to enter the United States for 120 days under Trump’s latest travel ban proposal — he has been eager to show a clear victory more than two months into his tumultuous young presidency.
A strike against Syria could help him demonstrate independence from Russia and its president, VladiÂmir Putin, whose alleged efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential race have proved a major distraction. And Trump wants to show that he is a tougher and stronger leader than Obama, who received scathing criticism when he drew a “red line” with Syria over its use of chemical weapons and then declined to act when President Bashar al-Assad bounded over it. "
@wildthumb Also from the Post:
I am so disgusted with the media handling of this whole fiasco. Many of them are actually buying (and selling back) the bullshit that Trump was “moved” by the photos of the Syrian children. Will they never accept this monster/idiot for who he is?
No.
Or an 8-year old American girl killed in a botched raid in Yemen. But since she was the daughter of the strike’s target, well, she got was was coming to her.
Hashtag: CultureOfLife
We don’t call them “Media Whores” for nothing.
They are feckless and cowardly men and women. The lure of being close to centers of power far, far, far outweighs the fantasy they spin for themselves as modern day Edward R. Murrows. The MW love to inject themselves into any story, especially when a tag like “enemy of the people” pop up every now and then.
But, like other suckers, once the unfit, unqualified racist birther asshole easily undoes it all, their 3-inch boners will deflate.
The MW and the Scumbag are made for each other.
Interesting. Looks like sort of thing is no longer in Trump’s hands. I guess depending on the competence of Generals beats the alternative. Also, apparently there is some criticism of the Kabuki in the WaPo today. I guess the NYT is back to radio silence. Why does this not surprise me?
“Guided by the beauty of our weapon systems” - Brian Williams, Thursday night.
Ugh, this fucking gutless simp. He’s like other cowardly GOP men: in love with war but no fucking way they’ll ever serve!
Those who ignore the religious dimensions of the Syrian conflict are missing one of the primary reasons for the Alt-Right rage about attacking Assad.
From Breitbart itself:
"Caught in the crossfire from Day One were Syria’s Christians, a minority Assad went to some lengths to protect. Dark interviewed a Christian community leader in Aleppo named Abu Fadi, and he was blunt about the situation his community faces: “There is no question at all about whom we support: the government, of course. It is the only force protecting us from the jihadists and extremists.”
As we know, the Alt-Right regards Putin as an ally in the Christian existential fight against the forces of Islam, and the connection between Russia and Syria is not only strategic but religious: the vast majority of Syrian Christians are Eastern Orthodox, which is the same branch of Christianity that has been in Russia for centuries. Putin knows the deep psychological pull of the Orthodox church in Mother Russia, and has gone to some lengths to be seen as supporting that tradition.
The Al-Right’s protestations about not getting involved in another Mideast war are disingenuous in the extreme, as it never had the slightest problem with Trump’s campaign boasting about bombing the shit out of ISIS—that would involve bombing the Muslims who were waging war on Syrian and other Christians in that region.
Bannon’s own worldview is the distilled essence of the apocalyptic Alt-Right vision of things:
“You have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China,” he said during a 2016 radio appearance. “They are motivated. They’re arrogant. They’re on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat.” “Against radical Islam, we’re in a 100-year war,” he told Political Vindication Radio in 2011. “We’re going to war in the South China Seas in the next five to 10 years, aren’t we?” Bannon asked during a 2016 interview with Reagan biographer Lee Edwards. “We are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism,” he said in a speech to a Vatican conference in 2014. “And this war is, I think, metastasizing far quicker than governments can handle it.”
In a 2015 radio appearance, Bannon described how he ran Breitbart, the far-right news site he chaired at the time. “It’s war,” he said. “It’s war. Every day, we put up: America’s at war, America’s at war. We’re at war.” To confront this threat, Bannon argued, the Judeo-Christian West must fight back, lest it lose as it did when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453. He called Islam a “religion of submission” in 2016 — a refutation of President George W. Bush’s post-9/11 description of Islam as a religion of peace. In 2007, Bannon wrote a draft movie treatment for a documentary depicting a “fifth column” of Muslim community groups, the media, Jewish organizations and government agencies working to overthrow the government and impose Islamic law.
“There’s clearly a fifth column here in the United States,” Bannon warned in July 2016. “There’s rot at the center of the Judeo-Christian West,” he said in November 2015. “Secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals,” he argued at the Vatican conference. The “aristocratic Washington class” and the media, he has claimed, are in league with the entire religion of Islam and an expansionist China to undermine Judeo-Christian America."
To Bannonite Alt-Righties, the conflict in Syria is just one front in the global existential war against Islam and the other dark forces bent on destroying the Judeo-Christian West, and Trump betrayed them by seeming to attack Assad.
This leaves aside the question of whether or not Trump really intended on doing significant damage to Assad’s military assets in the first place. It’s being rumored that the Russians were alerted a day in advance about the impending attack, and if they were, it’s a certainty that the Russians then informed Assad. There are reports that the air base that was attacked has already been used by Assad’s air force to launch strikes against anti-Assad forces on the ground, so it would seem that the damage by American missiles was not significant. O’Donnell and others are already openly speculating that Putin essentially maneuvered Trump into launching an attack as a means of re-directing attention from Russian interference in the election.