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Title: BREAKING : Mark Levin “You Should Be Very Proud of Your President -a REAL Commander in Chief”
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URL Source: http://truthfeed.com/breaking-mark- ... real-commander-in-chief/63246/
Published: Apr 8, 2017
Author: Amy Moreno
Post Date: 2017-04-08 09:56:09 by Gatlin
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Views: 18500
Comments: 81
Conservative talk show powerhouse Mark Levin praised President Trump’s airstrikes against a Syria airbase, saying, “that’s a real leader.” After eight years of feckless, dithering foreign policy from Obama and his administration, it’s refreshing to see STRENGTH and confidence back in the White House. On Thursday President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airbase believed to be housing chemical weapons. The U.S. attack was retaliation for a Syrian chemical attack on Tuesday that killed innocent women and children.
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#6. To: Gatlin (#0)
There is absolutely no proof that the attack was ordered and orchestrated by Assad.
There is absolutely no proof that the attack was ordered and orchestrated by Assad. And there is absolutely no proof that a Tomahawk missile attack was ordered and orchestrated against Assad. Latest reports show him alive and well….he was not attacked. However, the Syrian air base from which the chemical attack was launched is a different matter. There are reports of heavy damage …
H/T: randge
Get ready for it, Bubba, here is a story that does make sense ... The diplomatic situation had been looking bright for President Bashar Assad of Syria. With the help of Russia, he had consolidated his power, the rebels were on their heels and the United States had just declared that ousting him was not a priority. So why would Assad risk it all, outraging the world by attacking civilians with what Turkey now says was the nerve agent sarin, killing scores of people, many of them children? Why would he inflict the deadliest chemical strike since the 2013 attacks outside Damascus, which came close to bringing U.S. military retaliation, averted only by a last-minute deal? One of the main defenses offered by Assad's allies and supporters, in disputing that chemical weapons were used in the strike Tuesday, is that such an attack would be "a crazy move," as one Iranian analyst, Mosib Na'imi, told the Russian state-run news site Sputnik. Yet, rather than an inexplicable act, analysts say, it is part of a carefully calculated strategy of escalating attacks against civilians. In recent years, as the battle has swung in its favor, the Syrian government has adopted a policy of seeking total victory by making life as miserable as possible for anyone living in areas outside its control. Government forces have been herding defeated opponents from across the country into Idlib province, where the chemical attack occurred. Starved and bombed out of their enclaves, they are bused under lopsided surrender deals to the province, where Qaida-linked groups maintain a presence the Syrian military uses as an excuse to bomb without regard for the safety of civilians. Dr. Monzer Khalil, the health director for Idlib province, said such extreme tactics are designed to demonstrate the government's impunity and to demoralize its opponents. "It makes us feel that we are defeated," said Khalil, whose gums bled after he was exposed to scores of chemical victims Tuesday. "The international community will stay gazing at what's happening and observing the explosive barrels falling and rockets bombing the civilians and the hospitals and the civil defense and killing children and medical staff without doing anything." "Militarily, there is no need," said Bente Scheller, the Middle East director of the Berlin-based Heinrich Boell Foundation. "But it spreads the message: You are at our mercy. Don't ask for international law. You see, it doesn't protect even a child." On Thursday, Syria's foreign minister challenged accounts by witnesses, experts and world leaders that his government was involved. "I stress to you once again: The Syrian Army has not, did not and will not use this kind of weapons not just against our own people, but even against the terrorists that attack our civilians with their mortar rounds," the minister, Walid Moallem, said at a news conference in Damascus. But the denial, as well as a Russian assertion that a bomb hit a chemical weapons depot controlled by the rebels, seemed perfunctory, almost without regard to the facts, which Western governments said pointed overwhelmingly to a Syrian government hand. Critics of President Barack Obama including President Donald Trump say that his decision not to enforce his "red line" on chemical attacks in 2013 convinced the Assad government it could get away with anything, and that it has been escalating its harsh tactics against civilians ever since. Since that "green light," wrote Jihad Yazigi, an opposition-leaning Syrian economist, "Assad knows that a large-scale attack against its civilians is a short-term public relations liability but a long-term political asset." That was only reinforced, critics say, by recent statements by Trump administration officials that it was time to accept the "political reality" of Assad's grip on power. By showing it puts no limits on the tactics it uses, Yazigi wrote, "the regime shows to the world the West's impotence and weakness." Khalil, 35, fled his job at a state-run hospital in 2011. The Syrian uprising was in its early days, with largely peaceful protests that faced harsh crackdowns from security forces. He said he was threatened with arrest for treating wounded demonstrators. In 2015, a mix of Qaida-linked and other rebels, some supported by the United States and its allies, drove government forces from Idlib, the capital of Idlib province. Khalil became the health director. The city then became a bombing target, and the Syrian government accused the Americans of backing the Qaida- linked group, then called the Nusra Front. "We are aware that we are in this Qaida trap," Khalil said. "But in Idlib we have 3.3 million people, and how many Qaida fighters? You cannot kill the 3 million for their sake." The fall of Idlib led to another turning point: Russia's full-on entry into the conflict, adding its firepower to the Syrian government's. Russia said it entered to fight the Islamic State, but directed most of its strikes at places further west, like Idlib, where rival insurgents more urgently threatened government forces. Chlorine attacks continued investigators from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations concluded the government had carried out at least three in 2014 and 2015 with little international reaction. Idlib's population grew as rebels and civilians unwilling to take their chances under government rule moved there from areas recaptured by Assad forces and allies. After Trump came into office, proclaiming a wish to work with Russia and maybe even Assad against the Islamic State, expectations grew that the international community would accept relegitimzing Assad. And last week came the statements from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, indicating effectively that Washington could accept Assad remaining in power. On Monday, Western officials were gathering in Brussels to weigh billions of dollars in reconstruction aid to the Assad government, amid opposition fears that they would drop their demand for a political transition first. By Thursday, however, U.S. military officials were discussing a possible military strike on Syria, and Tillerson was saying there was "no role" for Assad in Syria's future.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThe U.S. attack was retaliation for a Syrian chemical attack
#8. To: Deckard (#6)
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The U.S. attack was retaliation for a Syrian chemical attack
#11. To: Gatlin, randge (#8)
the Syrian air base from which the chemical attack was launched
#13. To: Deckard (#11)
THIS STORY MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL
Syria's use of chemical weapons has a grim logic
#14. To: Gatlin, ISIS of Panama, Jihad Johnny McCain, Hillary neocons, *Neo-Lib Chickenhawk Wars* (#13)
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