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President Trump announced Friday night that the U.S. and its allies had launched attacks on Syria in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack last week by President Bashar Assad's regime.
In televised remarks from the White House, Trump said the attacks were underway, and that Great Britain and France were also taking part.
The president did not provide details, but U.S. warships in the Mediterranean Sea, armed with cruise missiles, were in position to strike. British and French forces were also in place.
[...] The president said the U.S. prepared to sustain effort until the Syrian regime stops using chemical weapons.
[...] In the days leading up to the U.S. attack, Russia had warned that it would defend its troops in Syria. This has raised fears of a possible direct clash of U.S. and Russian forces.
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/13/601794830/u-s-launches-attacks-on-syria
Also at Bloomberg and The Guardian
(Score: 3, Insightful) by idiot_king on Saturday April 14 2018, @02:34AM (7 children)
I can't remember who said it, but someone once wrote that the US was a train on a track travelling ahead at high speed, and there were two groups of people, one on either side, yelling at it to change course. As if it could, you know, jump off the tracks.
I'm not sure I want my children to grow up in this country. It's too much.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Bot on Saturday April 14 2018, @02:38AM
well, your country is not perfect but it's recently gotten way better than Syria.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by JustNiz on Saturday April 14 2018, @04:07AM (4 children)
Where would you go? look around you....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @12:31PM (3 children)
Canada does look better by most measures. One problem is the weather.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Saturday April 14 2018, @03:07PM (2 children)
Uh, no. Health care. OMG!!!! Socialism!!! Run for the hills!
/s
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @11:40AM
So West Coast, then?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:10AM
yeah, fuck head. i would like to live somewhere where some otherwise unemployable piece of shit doesn't have the "right" to tell me what to do.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Saturday April 14 2018, @06:00PM
This is why high speed rail is a bad idea! Amtrak is saving the USA by delaying our inevitable death!