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| Pat Buchanan: Has the War Party Hooked Trump? |
| 2018-04-11 |
| [Townhall] With his Sunday tweet that Bashar Assad, "Animal Assad," ordered a gas attack on Syrian civilians, and Vladimir Putin was morally complicit in the atrocity, President Donald Trump just painted himself and us into a corner. "Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria," tweeted Trump, "President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price... to pay." "Big price... to pay," said the president. Now, either Trump launches an attack that could drag us deeper into a seven-year civil war from which he promised to extricate us last week, or Trump is mocked as being a man of bluster and bluff. For Trump Sunday accused Barack Obama of being a weakling for failing to strike Syria after an earlier chemical attack. "If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand," Trump tweeted, "the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would have been history!" Trump's credibility is now on the line and he is being goaded by the war hawks to man up. Sunday, John McCain implied that Trump's comments about leaving Syria "very soon" actually "emboldened" Assad: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 No one has mentioned that possibility of Assad's bombs hitting existing rebel (rebel or whomever they are) stocks of WMD. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-11 10:41 |
| #4 I can't assume we are being told the truth about the alleged gas attacks, or if anyone really knows the truth. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-04-11 10:38 |
| #3 Deals require a position of strength. Movements to ensure a visible position of strength are often misunderstood by friend and foe (that is by design). There is little point second guessing the moves along the way with this President or you'll get nauseous when you realize you've been following a fake move, again. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-04-11 09:46 |
| #2 Stay out of it! Let them devour one another. How many amazing Gazanian, Cuban, or Venezuelan success stories do we need to reflect on before we realize the correct course of action requires a quiet sit-back, and a bucket of delicious popcorn. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-11 06:08 |
| #1 That's why I question Assad's, let alone Russian, guilt - cui bono? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-11 06:02 |