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The Syrian government has once again been accused of attacking a rebel-held area with chemical weapons:
A suspected Syrian government chemical attack killed scores of people, including children, in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, a monitoring group, medics and rescue workers in the rebel-held area said.
The Syrian military denied responsibility and said it would never use chemical weapons.
The head of the health authority in rebel-held Idlib said more than 50 people had been killed and 300 wounded. The Union of Medical Care Organizations, a coalition of international aid agencies that funds hospitals in Syria, said at least 100 people had died.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack killed at least 58 people and was believed to have been carried out by Syrian government jets. It caused many people to choke, and some to foam at the mouth.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer blamed the attack on the "weakness and irresolution" of the previous U.S. administration.
Also at BBC, NYT, Fox News, the Washington Post, and The Hill.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by meustrus on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:04PM (3 children)
How are we as a country supposed to combat terrorists and dictators when our leaders' first response is not against them, but against fellow Americans? No administration in recent memory has ever done this. Not even the Bush administration blamed the opposition.
But thinking of 9/11 and Clinton recalls a similar situation. There were voices like these that sought to divide and attack Americans before confronting our true enemies. It was just the far-right fringe that until recently was generally dismissed as raving lunatics.
This response finally proves that Trump and his administration have absolutely no respect and no patriotism. They will let Assad and ISIS and Russia invade America before they stop attacking Democrats. For all their bluster about America First, it's clear that they are more interested in fighting other Americans than anything else.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @07:00PM
Are you calling John Kerry a liar? [twitter.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @08:54PM
Weakness and irresolution. Then tha answer is to send thousands of Americans to die in Syria to protect.... This will prove that Trump^W Americans is a Strong Leader.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday April 05 2017, @10:41PM
Not to mention that the administration's recent position that "Assad's fate is up to Syrians" and that ending the civil war there is not our priority, and whatever this love fest is they have with Russia and Putin. That reads like a green light to everyone involved if you ask me, and the fact that they pretend to "condemn" this action rings more as an insult than anything.