04-07-2017, 10:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2017, 12:13 PM by Eric the Green.)
(04-07-2017, 10:22 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Finally I can now start this list.
It took a while.
Thing #1 - responding to Syrian use of WMDs (in this case, banned chemical warfare).
To be continued ....
I agree.
Although its effectiveness should not be over-estimated.
http://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/...d=46641107
One other thing I liked:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/tr...rld-236977
who wouda thot?
Some say he should have gotten congressional approval for this strike. I understand that, and liked it when Obama asked for it. But he didn't get it. So Trump is just demonstrating that he can be a big boy and take action. Whether a strike like this needs congressional approval is certainly an issue. He will need it for further action, as Schumer said.
What to do is a big question. This is a national security issue; I agree with our "president" on that. The US and EU could take some kind of concerted action, perhaps to set up and defend a safe zone where the people of Syria can escape to. But if Russia objects by threatening war, then what? Maybe nothing can be done, after all, except to make these punitive strikes, and watch the country continue to deteriorate into nothing but a Russian base, and the Syrian people wandering with no place to go. Will Trump still say they are unwelcome in the USA, now that he has been emotionally moved by their plight for the first time?
Meanwhile, our country has just taken a definitive step toward oligarchic dictatorship that could last for decades or centuries. So do we really have any business straightening out the world? Another good question.