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posted by martyb on Saturday April 14 2018, @02:09AM   Printer-friendly

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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


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Saturday April 14 2018, @10:16AM (3 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Saturday April 14 2018, @10:16AM (#666859) Journal

    Acting to stop Assad from using Chemical weapons on civilians can be good

    The New Statesman raised an interesting point yesterday: the civil war in Syria is estimated to have killed at least tens of thousands of civilians, probably over a hundred thousand. Why are we willing to intervene when they're killed with chemical weapons but not when they're killed with conventional ones? I suspect most people would consider being shot and bleeding to death on the street not to be much worse than being killed with chlorine, yet apparently we're fine with the former but not the latter.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @11:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @11:21AM (#666875)

    Because chemical weapons are banned by treaty that Syria accepted ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention [wikipedia.org] )

    And they're an easier false flag that can trigger "International action".

    The real truth is the USA has been wanting to overthrow Syria for years. They're not there to stabilize stuff. The USA helped START the war in the first place.

    They funded the opposition in Syria: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-wikileaks-idUSTRE73H0E720110418 [reuters.com]

    And when the civil war finally started they supplied weapons to the rebels:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?pagewanted=all [nytimes.com]

    The USA also went in there and they aren't there to fight the ISIS at all, they want ISIS contained, not destroyed.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/raqqas_dirty_secret [bbc.co.uk]

    They want the "fire" of ISIS to burn Syria. They don't want that fire put out. That's why they never seemed to have as much success as the Russians when the Russians fought the ISIS.

    The USA sponsors Muslim extremists to overthrow Syria. Assad is bad but which of the USA sponsored extremist groups will be better at ruling Syria? Just look at what happened to Libya after the USA's "success" at removing Gaddafi. Then bleeding hearts cry over open slave trade in Libya but that wouldn't have been allowed under Gaddafi's regime. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-ponders-2020-run-lets-not-forget-her-real-libya-scandal-glenn-reynolds-column/895853001/ [usatoday.com]

    The USA is the corrupt World Cop that goes about killing and pretending to be the hero.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @11:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @11:56AM (#666884)

    Plus, we arm Saudi Arabia who are bombing Yemeni civilians suffering from famine and the worst cholera outbreak in human history.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by corey on Saturday April 14 2018, @10:23PM

    by corey (2202) on Saturday April 14 2018, @10:23PM (#667079)

    Yeah that was the main point made in this opinion piece:

    The Syria bombing is a disgraceful act disguised as a noble gesture

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/14/syria-airstrikes-bombing-assad-war [theguardian.com]