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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby Absentia » Sat Apr 08, 2017 4:10 am

NathanLoiselle wrote:This isn't news! America uses the worst bomb in their arsenal to make tiny dents in a tyrants air strip. In other news, wife has sex with husband.


Think of it as a warning shot. I'm fairly certain Assad isn't stupid enough to think we couldn't do worse if he crosses the line again.
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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby Crimson847 » Sat Apr 08, 2017 6:38 am

Assad is probably smart enough to realize that Putin would intervene if the US does something that actually threatens his regime, and probably knows that the US knows that. So I wouldn't be surprised if he views this as a dog barking angrily from behind a very solid fence, like Obama's "red line" but with more noise and bluster.
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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby Doodle Dee. Snickers » Sat Apr 08, 2017 3:34 pm

I watched the UN Security Council's emergency meeting yesterday, and I have to say that my mind's a bit eased. Britain, France, Japan, Italy, a Western-friendly African country and our Arab partners (the usual suspects, in other words) were like "We got your back, yo," while Russia bitched and complained on the other side of the table.

After all the worry of whether Trump's foreign policy would see us being unreasonably friendly to a hostile Russia, it's nice to see the UN kinda breaking down to the usual factions. Not perfect, but at least it's a familiar stability.

NathanLoiselle wrote:This isn't news! America uses the worst bomb in their arsenal to make tiny dents in a tyrants air strip. In other news, wife has sex with husband.


Bombing people is the way America says hello when we feel a bit neglected.
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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby Crimson847 » Sun Apr 09, 2017 4:01 am

The airfield is already back up and running, per CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/08/middleeas ... ald-trump/
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Postby Grimstone » Sun Apr 09, 2017 8:12 am

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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby BROWNRECLUSE » Sun Apr 09, 2017 2:35 pm

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Glad I found this helpful infograph to explain the situation.
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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby Piter Lauchy » Sun Apr 09, 2017 9:53 pm

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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby cmsellers » Mon Apr 10, 2017 3:37 am

I just need to share this picture of Erdoğan telling Putin to cut the crap in Syria, because it's hilarious and I will probably use it for a meme at some point.

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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby RaceProUK » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:36 am

cmsellers wrote:use it for a meme

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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby Irishjava » Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:49 pm

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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby Aquila89 » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:01 pm

Brian Williams is in love with the missile attack.

We see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two U.S. Navy vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean. I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen: ‘I’m guided by the beauty of our weapons.’ And they are beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments making what is, for them, a brief flight over this airfield.


If only Cohen was alive to see this...
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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby BROWNRECLUSE » Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:38 am

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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby cmsellers » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:40 am

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Johnson never said he didn't know where Aleppo was; he said he didn't know what a leppo was.
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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby blehblah » Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:48 pm

cmsellers wrote:Johnson never said he didn't know where Aleppo was; he said he didn't know what a leppo was.


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Mother never talked about Leppo...
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Re: U.S. military launches missile attack on Syria

Postby Irishjava » Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:00 pm

I'm very conflicted on what to feel. On the one hand, I really want Assad out. I want to intervene, as I've wanted to for 4 years. Syria has probably the greatest moral failing of the global community in a decade, and I want to see us do something substantial.

On the other hand, I absolutely do not trust the Trump administration to have an actual, unified, long term strategy in Syria. We can depose Assad, sure, but then what? Does anybody think Trump is considering what an international war crimes commission or a reconciliation government might look like? Fuck no. A couple generals might, but they're probably not on the same page with the other half of the admin. Depose Assad, and then watch Alaouites get hunted down and murdered by increasingly radicalized rebels for a few years. Not a huge improvement unless you've got a "Step 2".

I'm still trying to figure out what the fuck we're trying to do. It has been days, and Trump has not publicly said anything about the strike. No clarification of position, no next steps, no response to the continued use of the airfield and barrel bombings. Waiting was bad, but this "will we or won't we, I'll never tell" bullshit is killing me.

PS: everyone cheering these strikes, up to and including Trump, who has previously advocated non-intervention and the vilification of refugees can FUUUUUUCCCCKKKK THEMSELVES. My Facebook is a cesspool.
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