CNBC: US military has launched more than 50 missiles aimed at Syria: NBC News

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It's the right action. But the fact that trump is in charge is what is fucking killing me right now. Had Obama taken measures like this back in 2012, I wouldn't be as worried

Exactly. We have a man-child in office surrounded by a team of amateurs and yes men.
 
The fuck? Sooooo, I guess all of the Russian ties to the Trump admin were bullshit? How would Russia and Putin ever sign off on this, (unless they knew about it ahead of time and there end up being no casualties)?
Maybe Putin wanted to end his relationship with Assad for some reason and is using Trump?
And why is Trump all of the sudden worried about Syrians and refugees being killed? He hasn't given a damn before.

Confusing as fuck. I have no idea....

The Kremlin already said after the chemical attack that their alliance with Assad wasn't unconditional.
 
Yeah, but those fuckers are crazy - they think the original chemical attack was a false flag operation to get the US in a war, not that this was a "bad" idea.

That's macabre but not crazy to me.

ISIS gets support from Saudi Arabia, and they've used sarin before.
There's been no official reports from any reliable third party as to responsibility.
Assad understood the consequences and willingly surrendered stockpiles after the 2013 chemical attack.

US wanted regime change. They're going after it.

When it comes to the Middle-East, the US encourages conflict to get what it wants.
 
I support this. As soon as I saw the chemical attack I believed something had to be done. If Obama was president he probably would have been forced to do something similar, Assad is literally testing the world to see if he can get away with being an evil fuck

Yeah, I'm fine with taking out his means of doing something like this again.
 
No, people need to chill the hell out about us getting into large war. Assad will complain but they can't actually do anything about this besides continue attacking their own citizens.

Look, I know the US (and our Australian airforce as well) have been launching strikes in Syria against, but that was against the 'militant rebels', not the Syrian government forces(hell, there was a minor shitstorm over a botched bombing that killed Syrian army personnel last year)

So to turn around and start bombing the Syrians...well, how is it not an act of war?

The U.S. hasn't declared war since WWII. So if it's an act of war it's far from the first.

Yeah, we've all been playing fast and loose with the terminology of military engagements.
 
Anyone have a link to that r Donald Thread? Would love to go through it.
Don't bother. There are a ton of posts on it, they all think this is a false flag thing. They are pissed because they think they got dragged into a false war. The alt right also wants good relations with Asad because he kills ISIS.
 
As much as Assad needs to go, that piece of shit needs to be dealt with by powers local to that region, US interference will only energise Terrorists and any fence sitters, especially if it's a known Islamaphobe like Trump. Have they not learned anything from Iraq/Afghan war.

THERE WILL BE MORE REFUGEES if this escalates, more tragedies of human suffering, EU will need to open it's doors once again.

God damn this man doesn't have an ounce of wisdom or forethought.
 
There's a whole wiki page of US missile strikes and bombings in Syria since 2014. That in and of itself is really not that big a deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_Syria

I assume if there's any importance to this event is that these are attacks on Syrian government forces/resources as opposed to ISIS/ISIL.

You guys are overreacting here.

I would also like to put in a word to remain calm and think of this in the context of the past several years. It's not like this is the first time we've bombed Syria.

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How are these 70 missiles significantly different than the 12,192 from last year? Do the targets make the difference? The intent? How much does it really matter?
 
as much as I dislike Trump, he is allowed to change his position on subjects - especially ones as important as these - as the situation dictates. I would never hold the Commander in Chief under the weight of a three year old tweet he made when he was a citizen.



Let's hold the president to a higher standard then "oops he fucked up" because he fucked up, and is the god damn president.
 
as much as I dislike Trump, he is allowed to change his position on subjects - especially ones as important as these - as the situation dictates. I would never hold the Commander in Chief under the weight of a three year old tweet he made when he was a citizen.
If Tillerson hadn't come out and said the US no longer has a position on what happens to Assad in Syria these strikes may never have even happened.

Those strikes have been seen in many quarters as a test of the US following that statement.

The POTUS matters. The Secretary of State and a staffed State Department matters. Well known policies matter.
 
We have a President whose middle name should be "hyperbole", so I think it's a little understandable if people are on edge by his actions.
 
Yeah, I just saw that. I wonder how far ahead of time Russia was told?

And man, this orange-faced bastard hasn't cared about Syrian refugees heading west to get out of there pretty much ever, right? Why would he all of a sudden care that some of them were gassed?

Probably along the lines of hey dudes, you have any equipment or personnel or airbase?

If no, cool, thanks, hit launch button.

If yes, ok you have x amount of time to move them out. If we see movement on anything we know is definitively Syrian you're fucked too. Have a nice day.
 
Another reminder that striking their airfields like this is exactly what HRC wanted to do.

I hate Trump and have no confidence in him but this isn't starting WW3 on it's own.

Hillary would have wanted to work with other countries to do this, though? She likely wouldn't have favored unilateral action.
 
Very measured reaction IMO. Will keep watching the news all night to see what happens. Hopefully this doesn't escalate anything and Syria gets the message.
 
That's macabre but not crazy to me.

ISIS gets support from Saudi Arabia, and they've used sarin before.
There's been no official reports from any reliable third party as to responsibility.
Assad understood the consequences and willingly surrendered stockpiles after the 2013 chemical attack.

US wanted regime change. They're going after it.
If you think this action is some sort of false flag to get Assad out, you're sorely mistaken. And please, if you actually think Assad got rid of all of his chemical weapons, you're wrong as well.
 
If this was Hillary in office she would have done the same thing
I don't think you could sit there as the president, look at those pictures from that attack and do.............nothing.

You don't unsee stuff like that...

He hit airfields so the planes can't take off, I'm ok with that, when I first saw the thread I thought the worst and he was just throwing them around any old way.

Yeah that's a 70 million dollars worth of explosives but I mean come on....Gassing people, you don't go unpunished for gassing people, you guys want to talk about nazi level evil, thats Assad
 
This is like a bay of pigs, only with an idiot who won't know what happened at the helm instead of JFK.


I don't care if you THINK HRC would have done this, she didn't because she isn't president. Stop even mentioning her, republicans would have slaughtered her anyway for doing this.
 
I would also like to put in a word to remain calm and think of this in the context of the past several years. It's not like this is the first time we've bombed Syria.

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How are these 70 missiles significantly different than the 12,192 from last year? Do the targets make the difference? The intent? How much does it really matter?
This is very interesting, had no clue, thanks for sharing.
 
I would also like to put in a word to remain calm and think of this in the context of the past several years. It's not like this is the first time we've bombed Syria.

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How are these 70 missiles significantly different than the 12,192 from last year? Do the targets make the difference? The intent? How much does it really matter?

I'm wondering what the difference is, myself.
 
Man, Putin's response to this is going to be really interesting.

Can they continue acting like Assad is an angel and any attempts to discredit him are fake news now that Trump's going all in like this?
 
As messed up as what has happened in Syria with the war crimes and what not, however there is no reason for US to get involved until US citizens are harmed.

Oh fuck that. We should take out Assad. We talk all this shit about punching Nazis, yet here we have some legit nazi like actions by Assad that deserve a legit ass kicking. Fuck trump, but folks who oppose the actions he took mostly because it was he who took the action are straight clowns.
 
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