Things Trump Is Doing Right

[David Horn]

(04-08-2017, 11:15 PM)Galen Wrote:

(04-08-2017, 09:34 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Trump has sent some mixed signals.  He's not going to be the world's policeman.  He knows how to use the military more effectively that prior presidents.  Let's see if his next move is more effective than launching a bunch of half million dollar missiles in order to put an airfield out of commission for a day.  I didn't much care for the pictures of intact fighter jets sitting in hardened shelters that took some damage but did their jobs.

If you think back to the supposed chemical attack by Assad in 2013 and the call to invade Syria at the time then this current attack looks much like that earlier one.  There are two problems with the conclusion that Assad carried out this latest attack.  First, is that Syria gave up its stockpile of chemical weapons.  Second, with the help of Russia he was winning and no doubt remembers what the pretext for last attempt at regime change was.

Given how long the deep state has wanted Assad out of the way and now that Trump appears to be setting the stage for another call for regime change I can only conclude that he has made his deal with them.  It looks like the neocons get their war despite Hillary's loss.

We only control our national government.  Other governments do what ever the ruling faction dictates.  I doubt we'll be able to do much with Assad, and even if we could, what that would be is questionable in the extreme.  North Korea, on the other hand, is ruled by a whacknut kid with a bad haircut.  He's a tougher nut to crack than Assad, and 100 times as dangerous.  This one may be on a timeline we have little if any say in dictating ... or even influencing.  The Chinese don's want to tackle this either.  If war is coming, look there for its genesis.

If it comes, how will all the ideologues handle it?  I don't see much in the way of solutions, military, diplomatic or otherwise.