US Navy fires 50 tomahawk missiles at Shayrat airfield in Syria

[BattlingNelson]

Risk everything you have and all of your leverage to use the one thing that could reverse the US's opinion on their Syrian policy? And for what, to take out 80 people? They basically had the rebels on their heels and if they were strained, it would be an easy mssion for their Russian counterparts, there's just no need for them.

As I wrote earlier he had reason to believe the US wouldn't lift a finger.

[BattlingNelson]

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...r16-story.html

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.re...94T0YO20130530

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/1...l-weapons.html

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/0...nowledges.html

http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/7...-against-Kurds

Some links I Googled for you.

Thanks mate. I will check them out.

[King_]

Oh, look, now everybody in America cares about innocent Muslim kids dying in the Middle East? When it fits the Trump rhetoric-agenda, right?

But the innocent kids playing soccer in dirt getting murdered by despicable skin head marines and then laughing about it afterward was just "part of the bigger picture" in Iraq, right?

What a joke.

[W1LL]

[Dixie Normis]

I don't know too much about warfare tactics. Apparently there were two chemical warfare agents found - both sarin and chlorine.

If this is true, does it make the story about hitting a cache seem more likely? I mean, you hit a cache and it was storing a couple of types of chemical agent = multiple types of agents found on the bodies etc.
Is it usual for multiple types of agent to be used in a deliberate attack?

Yes, it seems more likely that the place that got hit was a weapons cache. Trump should have waited for evidence before he made this move regardless of which is true.

[Dixie Normis]

Oh, look, now everybody in America cares about innocent Muslim kids dying in the Middle East? When it fits the Trump rhetoric-agenda, right?

But the innocent kids playing soccer in dirt getting murdered by despicable skin head marines and then laughing about it afterward was just "part of the bigger picture" in Iraq, right?

What a joke.

So you are saying that we shouldnt care about Muslims or what?

[King_]

So you are saying that we shouldnt care about Muslims or what?

I'm saying that you don't care about these kids. People will blindly support Trump no matter what, given who a majority of his supporters are.

This "chemical attack," was enough to launch missiles into Syria, and people justify it because "they killed innocent kids bro." But where was that fake outrage when all of the other 300,000 kids were dying innocently before that? Many of them by the hands of the United States military.

It didn't fit the script back then to care about those kids. Now that Trump is in office, and his pre-election, tough-guy rhetoric that riled up all of his supporters could be implemented..... you care about those kids, eh?

The state of Syria is fighting ISIS by the way.

[King_]

When wikileaks posted the videos of the skin-head marines bombing kids and innocent civillians- the same people who said "we gotta protect the innocent kids bro" from last week were the ones laughing on the internet at at those innocent civilians being murdered before. You can even just look at this forum on its own and see all the countless posts of "oh well, another rag head down. its part of the bigger picture, who cares about ******s." when innocents were being murdered before.

But now those same people care? Hahaha, **** you.

[New England]

US, Real Life Superman to the World. Surely that won't ever take a bad turn.

And maybe those cats who got gassed did some f#cked up sh^t & had it coming.

civilians and children had this coming?

[King_]

Ha Ha Ha Ha

Here you go. You guys got what you wanted.