U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base

Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by hive_mind on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:38PM (#14056356)

    1. The U.S. and ISIS are on the same side in this war.

    2. Assad is a secularist, modernizer.

Shudder.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by 1001101 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:52PM (#14056427)

Append to 1.: "moderate rebels," like Al-Nusra Front, who were actually caught in Turkey with chemical weapons [1].

Ron Paul is questioning the origin of the attack, but here we are.

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia is moving forward as of earlier this week, and the Turkish stream pipeline can't move forward until the Syria question is settled. Add to that in late March Russia announced it was coming up with an alternative to the SWIFT banking system. Collision course.

Vlad doesn't seem like the kind to back down. Not looking forward to this one bit.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-syrian-rebels...

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by AnimalMuppet on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:47PM (#14056409)

1. The US is also fighting ISIS. Despite the popular saying, "the enemy of my enemy" is not the same as "my friend".

2. Assad is also someone who uses chemical weapons on his own people. (All right, the other side of a civil war, but still citizens of his own nation.) He's a guy who turned protests into a civil war by his brutality in response. "Secularist and modernizer" isn't the same as "good guy".

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by cup on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:05PM (#14056505)

Secularist, modernizer, dictator, war criminal, human rights violator..

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by Udik on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:12PM (#14056539)

I can't wait for somebody to start judging american presidents by the same standards.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by flukus on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:25PM (#14056594)

Well they aren't dictators, but they aren't always secularists or modernizers.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by flukus on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:26PM (#14056301)

Is this how WW3 starts?

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by PhilWright on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:39PM (#14056362)

Just a slight overreaction on your part. Just about every President has launched punitive strikes against targets for bad behavior. None led to WW3.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by flukus on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:40PM (#14056365)

How many of them were under the protection of Russia?

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by seizethecheese on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:51PM (#14056421)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by Retric on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:52PM (#14056424)

It's not cold when your actually killing people.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by seizethecheese on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:04PM (#14056500)

The cold war was full of hot wars where the US and USSR fought by proxy.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by flukus on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:18PM (#14056563)

They're both directly involved in this one, there is no proxy.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by cderwin on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:11AM (#14057058)

To the contrary: neither is directly involved. Neither the US nor Russia have troops on the ground in Syria.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by flukus on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:26AM (#14057128)

They've both been bombing various factions, that's direct involvement. The both also have troops on the ground, the US has them in the north with the Kurds and the Russians had personnel at the very airbase that was bombed.

All we need now is an arch duke in an open top car.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by objclxt on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:15PM (#14056556)

You think Russia wasn't propping up the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War?

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by johndevor on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:47PM (#14056407)

[citation needed]

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by AnimalMuppet on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:51PM (#14056419)

http://www.politico.eu/article/russia-says-support-for-syria...

(Dated today.)

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by flukus on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:00PM (#14056474)

They have a naval base in Syria.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by kafkaesq on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:58PM (#14056461)

Just about every President has launched punitive strikes against targets for bad behavior.

But usually they think about the long-term strategic consequences of doing so, before acting. For like at least 5 minutes or so.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by khazhou on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:13PM (#14056546)

There are surely generals, including McMasters who are designed and approved this plan.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by kafkaesq on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:26AM (#14057123)

It seems his advisors don't so much approve, as rubberstamp.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by czep on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:36PM (#14056347)

Duck and cover, kids. This ain't gonna be pretty.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by joecool1029 on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:06AM (#14057269)

What a way to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of entering WWI.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by kafkaesq on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:45PM (#14056388)

Pretty much.

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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by stephenitis on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:54PM (#14056436)

Deep breathes. This may be Donald trying to make good on his campaign promise of sneak attacking without announcement.

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