Rasta's heroes are all saying this was a good move. CNN is raving about how bold and good a move it is. Rasta's boys McCain and Graham applaud it. Our allies are all for it. China, Iran, and Russia (and obviously Syria) are the only countries not saying it was the right and proportionate response by Trump. My preference would be we try to win any war we take part in, as quickly and decisively as possible. But stay out of conflicts in the first place, especially those that are none of our business.
US air strikes in Syria: Russia suspends agreement preventing direct conflict with American forces Russia has said it is suspending a deal with the US to prevent mid-air collisions over Syria in response to US air strikes on a Syrian air base. The Russian Foreign Ministry said following Donald Trump's decision to fire 59 cruise missiles at a military target in Syria on Thursday, Moscow was suspending a memorandum with the US that prevented incidents and ensured flight safety. Under the memorandum, signed after Russia launched an air campaign in Syria in September 2015, Russia and the US had exchanged information about their flights to avoid incidents in the crowded skies over Syria — where Russia has several dozen warplanes and batteries of air-defence missiles. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ict-military-donald-trump-putin-a7671631.html
I'm quite sure it was Obama/Clinton foreign policy that caused it all. The Shia crackdown on the Sunnis in Iraq was done with Obama's approval - at least that's the signal he sent to Al Maliki. In fact, Obama himself in several public appearances/speeches at the time the crackdown was ongoing, praised Al Maliki and his leadership. WTF were we doing in Libya?
http://www.kiplinger.com/article/bu...less-claims-fall-to-234-000-april-6-2017.html Weekly Jobless Claims Fall to 234,000 on April 6, 2017 First-time applications for unemployment insurance declined once again to remain at generational lows. The number of first-time filers for unemployment benefits remains at multi-decade lows, the Department of Labor said Thursday. The number of newly unemployed workers for the week ended April 1 came to 234,000, a decrease of 25,000 from the previous week's revised level of 259,000. The four-week moving average was 250,000, a decrease of 4,500 from the previous week's revised average. Weekly initial jobless claims are tracking at levels last seen in 1973, according to the Federal Reserve.
There's a difference between supporting the man and wanting the other candidate to lose. By your logic, you support Trump because you didn't support Clinton. I'm interested in the Truth, not in partisan witch hunts. A lot of what Trump says doesn't stand up to scrutiny, which is just how it is. When people post things that make claims, I look at whether there is reasonable support for those claims. If not, I'll post such and why. Think about it.
I am not worried about our planes going up against the Russian built planes, we have the advantage. However, I am VERY CONCERNED about our planes going up against the Russian built air defense systems, which are 2-3 generations ahead of our systems. Short version, the Russian built air defense systems can take down anything we can put up. From cruise missiles, satellites and some experts believe even our high tech stealth planes are now at risk. The Russian air defense missiles can cover approx 10 times or more area than ours can, and with a very high accuracy rate. And they are working on the next generation soon to be released. While we have been building better and more expensive planes, the Russians have been building better and less expensive ways to knock them down. The most advanced Russian air defense systems are now in Syria. Why?
The sectarian violence started in 2006. So perhaps Obama could have done more to encourage Al-Maliki to quell the recriminations, but that djinni was already out of the bottle. Short of a massive troop buildup to play policeman, I've yet to hear a convincing argument for how they could have realistically halted the civil war. As for Libya, I'm not sure what our strategic objective was, but it's also not pertinent to the discussion about Syria (except that it was tangentially related because of the Arab Spring).
Hey! Denny's back! The guy who thought Trump would be great because he would keep us out of wars and who told us that Clinton would start a war with Russia! So you must really HATE that Trump just did what Clinton advocated literally hours earlier, and which has been a "significant blow" to the relationship with Russia - right? You're mad at Trump now, right Denny? Because otherwise your words mean nothing, don't they?
Once again, you appear not to know what "logic" means. Perhaps you're using the Spock definition. You mean "rational" and by that you mean "in our narrow self-interest". Do you think there's something "logical" about not taking in refugees and allowing them to suffer and die? "Hey, cheer up - you're dying logically!" you can say to them. I love it when people act like they're just following reason and common sense when what they really mean is unconscionable selfishness.
Does it feel like we're missing something here to anyone else? Assad had a pretty good thing going, Russia is on his side, the US is focused on taking out some of his enemies. Having two of the world's superpowers in your country, one helping you, the other not fucking with you, seems like the absolute best case scenario when having a large scale protracted civil war. Then suddenly he decides to drop some chemical weapons? It's pretty much the one thing that would cause us to react. His generals work with Russian generals daily. He waits for them to leave the room and then calls for a chem drop? That doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. And then our response. We don't target Assad. We don't target any of his generals. We target the airbase where the chemical attack was launched from. We actually call the Russians and tell them where and when we're going to attack. The president himself said multiple times announcing our military plans in advance is a terrible strategy but this is exactly what we do. Just not sure that Assad launched a chemical attack without Russia's knowledge and approval. And that's the problem. Why? Why now? Why provoke us into a reaction? Seems like Russia is playing chess while we're claiming to be the world's greatest checkers players.
There's nothing selfish about considering our country first. RATIONALLY speaking, we have no long term plan for refugees if they were to come here. I guarantee you that they would end up in the inner cities, or slums, with no job skills, little to no education, poor to non-existent healthcare, and no future. We have... -No plan for their education -No plan for their housing -No plan for their healthcare -No plan for their job training -No jobs to give them -Overtaxed and overburdened welfare system which cannot accommodate further stress from foreign refugees And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head. Now, when you consider how many billions of dollars would have to go fund all of this to make it feasible, consider this: Congress can't even decide on a budget for it's own well-being without shutting the government down. What the hell do you think they're going to do about refugees with all the things I just listed (and likely countless more issues I didn't mention)? Face it, you have an EMOTIONAL argument, not one based on Rational, Logical reasoning or thought. And let's also assume for a minute that we take in just 2,000 of them. Why not more? Why just 2,000? And the same issues still apply that I listed above. At that point, it's just a feel-good measure to pat ourselves on the back with. We've made no substantial contribution to the refugee crisis when there are millions still out there. There's nothing selfish about that. It's perfectly acceptable, and it's a must if we want to do it correctly. Which we never do, and won't.
Actually that's what selfishness is. But it's nothing new for the US, as I am reminded when I hear that this year is the centennial of the US entering WWI, when of course WWI actually started in 1914.
Look, I get why we told the Russians. We can't be launching shit with a chance that we could kill them. But why didn't we say we're going to attack 30 targets and send Syria into a mad scramble to clear them all and then just attack the airbase? From what I've read we only told Russia that we were going to attack the airbase.
Kinda hard to use an airplane when your airbase is in ruins. Bullshit. Selfishness is a child not wanting to share a cookie with the other kids. In this case, we have nothing to offer them, because we have no plans for their long-term well-being. That's not being selfish, that's being rational. If you think putting them in housing projects is not only reasonable, but appropriate for our own citizens already living there, then I don't know what to tell you. And that's exactly where they would end up.
Syria has 21 major airbases. I think they'll be fine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Syrian_Air_Force_bases
