lol. I would accept 5 million American deaths and 2 billion Syrian deaths. You can do it! but you never did it. This is a stupid ....war crime.
FYI, my tax dollars have paid for many machine gun bullets that killed some humans that were seen thru FLIR imaging. I bet I've paid for as many kills as you, tough boy. How many kills do you have?
This is the problem. The same one Obama stared down and now Trump. We have now been at war in the Middle East for 15+ years and (predictably) the area is worse than before and our economy has suffered.
This attack is largely symbolic. After Assad's first attack, Russia got involved and made a deal with Obama not to attack. People say that was a failure and the U.S. lost cred - but Assad didn't use chemical weapons again during Obama's tenure. So whatever you want to say, Obama's reaction to Syria at that time did seem to prevent another attack during his administration. It should be noted that Russia did offer Obama at one point to get rid of Assad but the U.S. declined. Fast forward to last week - and Trump saying he didn't care about Syria nor Assad. Assad clearly took that as a green light to use chemical weapons and did use them. I can't imagine Russia was too happy with Assad as the optics are bad for Russia on many fronts, including its own terrorism problem at home. Trump needed a win badly. He needed to show he wasn't Russia's puppet. He needed to distract away from all his problems. This was the perfect opportunity for him. They had spoken to Russia before the attack - they got the green light from Russia to do this. This was a message to Assad, he won't use chemical weapons again as he was testing what he could get away under Trump. More importantly, this is a message by Trump the American people. Finally he has something to get people pumped about. Wag the dog!
Not a n00b. Been here about 10 years and have given money to the site. It's a bad look when you repost your own post in the same thread, calling out somebody for ignoring you, but won't answer a simple question addressed to you four (!) times. It's very easy to look back and say "lol epic fail by Obama" when you provide no alternative. The thing is, I don't totally disagree with you! I've said, as have other liberal posters, that Obama's Syria strategy was fly-by-the-seat-of-its-pants and that his "red line" remark is a black mark on his tenure. However, because you make it sound like there was some clear cut path he should've taken, what is it? Syria is THE nightmare geopolitical situation of the last few years. There doesn't appear to be an easy answer, but you keep alluding to one, so I'm curious. Or are you going to keep trolling @bigtexxx? Conservatives, police your own.
Good lord. A lot of idiots out tonight on the BBS. I applaud Trump on the moral response to Assad's brutality. Enough is enough and Obama should have done more even though yes he did go to Congress and his decisions I know he took seriously. This shouldn't be viewed as a Obama bashing moment. This **** is hard. However ....The Syrians tonight have to be saying to themselves "finally". Look....shooting off missles is the easy part. Diplomacy and now handling Russia and Irans response will be the hard part here. Anyone either praising or condemning is speaking out of their ass. Let's see how Russia responds first and come back from there.
Lol at thinking this is as simple as us bombing Syria from a moral high ground perspective. You must realize there's more to this, and that literally every part of this ordeal and the last week has been extremely fishy, right?
Why would Bashar do this? Not adding up. So if we sent a message to him to not do this anymore and then it happens soon again, and let's say in fact it isn't him, then what?
