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The Truth About Trump's Air Strike on Syria
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If I remember correctly, several years ago, an Individual of Interest told me that a Significant Outbreak of Hostilities in Syria would initiate a Chain-Reaction of Destruction. I hope I got that right. I continue to suspect that all of this sort of thing originates in One Central War-Room (regardless of which politicians, parties, countries, races, and religions are involved). What if the Reprehensible is Inevitable?? What if Resistance is Futile?? What if Exposing Megalomaniacs Anonymous Does NOT Constitute Deposing Megalomaniacs Anonymous?? What Would Dr. Dempsey Say?? What Would S.R. Hadden Say?? What Would Rachel Constantine Say?? What Would John Constantine Say?? What Would the Oracle Say?? What Would Mr. Edgars Say?? What Would Balem Abrasax Say?? What Would the Ancient Egyptian Deity Say?? What Would Orthodoxymoron Say?? What Would Pris Say?? "Jeeezus Oxy!!"
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Trump’s Syrian Military Response: Why Now, What’s the Strategy, What Are Critical Issues Before Us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DtFBoEwP9M
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WW III Starts in Syria: Colonel Sangari & Dr Ted Broer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNGG2pWP87g
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Evidence Syria Chemical Attack Was False Flag -Syrian Girl on infowars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx19pEalgoc
Trump Attacks #Syria starts WW3 #Syriastrike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN4Z6Bocl90
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx19pEalgoc
Trump Attacks #Syria starts WW3 #Syriastrike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN4Z6Bocl90
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An Elaboration on Molyneux's Correct Point on War and Similar Propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU3j8lh-4Hw
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WikiLeaks: Proof U.S. Orchestrated Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria
April 8, 2017 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Documents from WikiLeaks suggest that a false flag chemical attack against the Syrian people was orchestrated by the United States, in order to oust Assad from power.
According to Hillary Clinton emails, the U.S. State Department wanted to help rebels overthrow Assad in order to strengthen Israel’s position against Iran:
Washington should start by expressing its willingness to work with regional allies like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to organize, train and arm Syrian rebel forces. The announcement of such a decision would, by itself, likely cause substantial defections from the Syrian military. Then, using territory in Turkey and possibly Jordan, U.S. diplomats and Pentagon officials can start strengthening the opposition.
Despite this, President Trump approved the bombing of the Syrian military base controlled by al-Assad under the guise of preventing the Assad regime from committing further chemical attacks. This is despite evidence that the attack itself had nothing to do with the Syrian government.
Thedailybell.com reports:
The State Department makes it quite clear their belief that “Bringing down Assad would not only be a massive boon to Israel’s security, it would also ease Israel’s understandable fear of losing its nuclear monopoly.”
This is nothing new, and really not surprising, as the U.S. has been involved in dozens of similar operations around the world. But just how far would the U.S. and Israel go to bring down Assad?
Just what type of training would be given to the rebels to help overthrow Assad? The groundwork had already been laid out by President Obama. As soon as chemical weapons were used by Assad, the international community would have the justification to become more involved in removing him from power. We know they were interested in doing so regardless of whether or not he used chemical weapons against the people of Syria.
CNN reported in 2012 that America was involved in training the rebels to secure and monitor chemical weapons sites.
The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday.
The training, which is taking place in Jordan and Turkey, involves how to monitor and secure stockpiles and handle weapons sites and materials, according to the sources. Some of the contractors are on the ground in Syria working with the rebels to monitor some of the sites, according to one of the officials.
This confirms that rebel forces had access to chemical weapons and that the U.S. helped familiarize rebel groups with storing and transporting the weapons.
But a removed article from The Daily Mail seems to prove that the U.S. had planned on helping the rebels actually use chemical weapons as well. The article was supposedly removed because the source of the information was untrustworthy. A Malaysian hacker was said to have taken emails from British defense contractors from an unprotected server.
Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad’s regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country.
A report released on Monday contains an email exchange between two senior officials at British-based contractor Britam Defence where a scheme ‘approved by Washington’ is outlined explaining that Qatar would fund rebel forces in Syria to use chemical weapons.
Barack Obama made it clear to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that the U.S. would not tolerate Syria using chemical weapons against its own people.
Lending credence to this theory that the United States trained rebel forces in the use of chemical weapons in order to initiate a false flag attack are the events surrounding the death of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens in 2012.
The story is far from Trump’s claim that the U.S. attempts to “prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.”
The U.S. is an active player in moving weapons all throughout the middle east, arming all sorts of rebel groups, militias, and government. It appears the United States funneled weapons out of Libya to provide Syrian rebels the ability to fight Assad.
A book called The Real Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don’t Want You to Know details the role Stevens fulfilled in Libya of brokering weapons exports from Libya to countries which backed the Syrian rebels.
The author, Aaron Klein, said a group called the February 17 Brigade worked with the CIA to provide security for a special operation in Benghazi and helped facilitate weapons transfers.
The exact nature of the U.S. involvement with the February 17 Brigade that guarded the U.S. special mission might have been unintentionally exposed when a Libyan weapons dealer formerly with the Brigade told Reuters in an in-person interview he had helped ship weapons from Benghazi to the rebels fighting in Syria.
Klein noted that no one seems to have connected the dots from what the weapons dealer said to the activities taking place inside the Benghazi compound and whether the Brigade serves as a cut out to ship weapons.
In the Reuters interview published June 18, 2013, Libyan warlord Abdul Basit Haroun declared he is behind some of the biggest shipments of weapons from Libya to Syria. Most of the weapons were sent to Turkey, he said, where they were, in turn, smuggled into neighboring Syria.
It was Steven’s job to facilitate the retrieval of these Libyan weapons and funnel them to U.S. interests. His death may have been related to militia groups inside Libya not trusting the United States with these weapons, or wanting them for their own use or profit.
Libyan weapons were shipped to places like Turkey which were already participating in training the Syrian rebels. Part of this training, we know, had to do with chemical weapons.
We also know that the U.S. wanted to see Assad brought down and that they had drawn a line over the use of chemical weapons. They needed a chemical weapons attack to justify stronger interventions in the conflict against Assad.
That chemical attack happened last week, followed by the subsequent U.S. bombing of an Assad base.
We know the terrorist groups forming the opposition to Assad had access to chemical weapons.
Is this enough evidence to prove the United States facilitated a false flag chemical weapons attack in order to justify military intervention, and finally defeat Assad, in support of Israel?
http://yournewswire.com/wikileaks-us-orchestrated-chemical-weapons-attack/
Personal Note: "Smoke & mirrors"? With the neocons praising Trump now how best to defeat his enemies at home? Unfortunately the way the global chessboard works innocent civilians are the casualties just like with 911 and the PTB including Trump are crying "rivers of crocodile tears" about the poor babies killed.
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As it is below; so it is above
April 8, 2017 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Documents from WikiLeaks suggest that a false flag chemical attack against the Syrian people was orchestrated by the United States, in order to oust Assad from power.
According to Hillary Clinton emails, the U.S. State Department wanted to help rebels overthrow Assad in order to strengthen Israel’s position against Iran:
Washington should start by expressing its willingness to work with regional allies like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to organize, train and arm Syrian rebel forces. The announcement of such a decision would, by itself, likely cause substantial defections from the Syrian military. Then, using territory in Turkey and possibly Jordan, U.S. diplomats and Pentagon officials can start strengthening the opposition.
Despite this, President Trump approved the bombing of the Syrian military base controlled by al-Assad under the guise of preventing the Assad regime from committing further chemical attacks. This is despite evidence that the attack itself had nothing to do with the Syrian government.
Thedailybell.com reports:
The State Department makes it quite clear their belief that “Bringing down Assad would not only be a massive boon to Israel’s security, it would also ease Israel’s understandable fear of losing its nuclear monopoly.”
This is nothing new, and really not surprising, as the U.S. has been involved in dozens of similar operations around the world. But just how far would the U.S. and Israel go to bring down Assad?
Just what type of training would be given to the rebels to help overthrow Assad? The groundwork had already been laid out by President Obama. As soon as chemical weapons were used by Assad, the international community would have the justification to become more involved in removing him from power. We know they were interested in doing so regardless of whether or not he used chemical weapons against the people of Syria.
CNN reported in 2012 that America was involved in training the rebels to secure and monitor chemical weapons sites.
The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday.
The training, which is taking place in Jordan and Turkey, involves how to monitor and secure stockpiles and handle weapons sites and materials, according to the sources. Some of the contractors are on the ground in Syria working with the rebels to monitor some of the sites, according to one of the officials.
This confirms that rebel forces had access to chemical weapons and that the U.S. helped familiarize rebel groups with storing and transporting the weapons.
But a removed article from The Daily Mail seems to prove that the U.S. had planned on helping the rebels actually use chemical weapons as well. The article was supposedly removed because the source of the information was untrustworthy. A Malaysian hacker was said to have taken emails from British defense contractors from an unprotected server.
Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad’s regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country.
A report released on Monday contains an email exchange between two senior officials at British-based contractor Britam Defence where a scheme ‘approved by Washington’ is outlined explaining that Qatar would fund rebel forces in Syria to use chemical weapons.
Barack Obama made it clear to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that the U.S. would not tolerate Syria using chemical weapons against its own people.
Lending credence to this theory that the United States trained rebel forces in the use of chemical weapons in order to initiate a false flag attack are the events surrounding the death of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens in 2012.
The story is far from Trump’s claim that the U.S. attempts to “prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.”
The U.S. is an active player in moving weapons all throughout the middle east, arming all sorts of rebel groups, militias, and government. It appears the United States funneled weapons out of Libya to provide Syrian rebels the ability to fight Assad.
A book called The Real Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don’t Want You to Know details the role Stevens fulfilled in Libya of brokering weapons exports from Libya to countries which backed the Syrian rebels.
The author, Aaron Klein, said a group called the February 17 Brigade worked with the CIA to provide security for a special operation in Benghazi and helped facilitate weapons transfers.
The exact nature of the U.S. involvement with the February 17 Brigade that guarded the U.S. special mission might have been unintentionally exposed when a Libyan weapons dealer formerly with the Brigade told Reuters in an in-person interview he had helped ship weapons from Benghazi to the rebels fighting in Syria.
Klein noted that no one seems to have connected the dots from what the weapons dealer said to the activities taking place inside the Benghazi compound and whether the Brigade serves as a cut out to ship weapons.
In the Reuters interview published June 18, 2013, Libyan warlord Abdul Basit Haroun declared he is behind some of the biggest shipments of weapons from Libya to Syria. Most of the weapons were sent to Turkey, he said, where they were, in turn, smuggled into neighboring Syria.
It was Steven’s job to facilitate the retrieval of these Libyan weapons and funnel them to U.S. interests. His death may have been related to militia groups inside Libya not trusting the United States with these weapons, or wanting them for their own use or profit.
Libyan weapons were shipped to places like Turkey which were already participating in training the Syrian rebels. Part of this training, we know, had to do with chemical weapons.
We also know that the U.S. wanted to see Assad brought down and that they had drawn a line over the use of chemical weapons. They needed a chemical weapons attack to justify stronger interventions in the conflict against Assad.
That chemical attack happened last week, followed by the subsequent U.S. bombing of an Assad base.
We know the terrorist groups forming the opposition to Assad had access to chemical weapons.
Is this enough evidence to prove the United States facilitated a false flag chemical weapons attack in order to justify military intervention, and finally defeat Assad, in support of Israel?
http://yournewswire.com/wikileaks-us-orchestrated-chemical-weapons-attack/
Personal Note: "Smoke & mirrors"? With the neocons praising Trump now how best to defeat his enemies at home? Unfortunately the way the global chessboard works innocent civilians are the casualties just like with 911 and the PTB including Trump are crying "rivers of crocodile tears" about the poor babies killed.
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As it is below; so it is above
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►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1zQQzZmuZk
Something about that Bill Mitchell gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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I saw this one previously.Same feeling as you about Bill Mitchell Pris.
His smile makes me uncomfortable and his point of view even more.
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LOL
CNN speechless when congressman questions Syria chemical weapons attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgPbFjUL3dk
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CNN speechless when congressman questions Syria chemical weapons attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgPbFjUL3dk
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#SyriaStrikes Aftermath: What We Know So Far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjdofoO3vY
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The Truth About The Syrian Chemical Attack - A Timeline Of False Flags & Lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrCSInQJKMI
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CNN speechless when congressman questions Syria chemical weapons attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgPbFjUL3dk
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Excellent
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This is quite good and explains it with a positive frame of reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qNDChqvAtc
STEVE PIECZENIK: KABUKI of WAR: EDITED INFOWARS Apr. 7 17 TRUMP SYRIA CHINA WAR GAMES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qNDChqvAtc
STEVE PIECZENIK: KABUKI of WAR: EDITED INFOWARS Apr. 7 17 TRUMP SYRIA CHINA WAR GAMES
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I think Dabhoo7 's video above gives pretty good hints at some of the reasons for the actions overt and covert being taken by the USA in the middle East.
Every other explanation specially wrapped in a positive frame of reference Carol is just a smokescreen imho.
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Every other explanation specially wrapped in a positive frame of reference Carol is just a smokescreen imho.
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Debate: Military Intervention In Syria | Stefan Molyneux and Bill Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrVvTdJLB4g
Note: I think Putin's lack of immediate retaliation to the recent US missile attack in Syria is
a sign of poise not one of lack of power.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrVvTdJLB4g
Note: I think Putin's lack of immediate retaliation to the recent US missile attack in Syria is
a sign of poise not one of lack of power.
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Issue Analysis: Trump, Assad, Syria, China, North Korea, UN Resolutions, Russia and What’s Next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfyacCdR3Ak
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Putin Threatens US With Retaliation & Force Following Strikes On Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4JXg5Ga24
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Pieczenik Explodes: Issues Warning To Trump, Mattis AND McMaster About Going To War In Syria
Apr 10, 2017 11:34 PM
America's foremost expert in international affairs, having served under 5 Presidents, instrumental in the Camp David accords, in addition to playing a key role in regime changes around the globe for decades, Dr. Steve Pieczenik exploded with rage on the Alex Jones show yesterday -- warning Trump and his team that war crimes would follow if they pursued a neocon agenda of war in Syria, which the American people do not want.
"This is a warning to our generals, Mcmaster, and others, who think they can do a regime change in Syria. Number one, that will not be possible, not with the military, not with all the forces you have and not with the quality of the soldiers you have, the generals. Any notion of a regime change through force is both absurd or criminal. The issue of Syria and Assad have no national security interests to us at all. This will be an incredible dereliction of duty if we go to war in Syria."
He then warned Mcmaster and Mattis directly, saying that he will "come forth, and be tried for criminal activity, as will Mathis."
"There is no reason to put our men and women in harm's way for oil pipelines, or whatever nonsense that is military industrial complex thinks we need to do to get in the middle east. We have no interest in the middle east."
"There is no cause for war."
"Again, we're going through the nonsense of the neocons."
Dr. Pieczenik made his first public appearance in more than 30 years during the Presidential elections, saying in no uncertain terms that he represented a faction of the American intelligence community that would not allow Hillary Clinton to become the next President. Moreover, he claimed to be part of an organization that released the Podesta emails to Wikileaks. Interestingly, the mainstream media continues to ignore the good Doctor -- in spite of the fact that is resume is anything but conspiratorial. He is the real deal.
At one point in the interview, he got so heated that Jones had to cut him off when he threatened legal action against the President.
"If this goes any step further, this is a warning to our generals, to our President, and anyone involved. Once again, we will react quite vociferously and strongly. This is grounds for all types of legal action against the President."
He further elaborated on the situation in Syria as a war that is unwinnable, describing how the Assad family was firmly entrenched and could not be displaced by American forces, who have 'no idea what they're doing.'
"The people I know in the military are increasing their force structures to the degree that there is no strategy whatsoever. If you have no strategy, and regime change isn't a strategy, do not go to war."
"The President needs to understand, if he goes to war, that's his problem and we will have a major blowback, domestically. Our military is not prepared for this type of war. Our generals have no idea what they're doing."
A confused Jones, obviously caught off guard by the acrimonious tone of Dr. Pieczenik, asked what had changed from Friday to cause him to issues these warnings.
Pieczenik described, from a psyops point of view, the things he learned over the weekend that caused him to worry.
"But once I hear, and I understand there are more forces placed there over the weekend, there was artillery placed in there. And in fact, they are creating in the White House, what we call a dichotomy or two messages."
"You have a purposeful confusion."
"Do not go to war in Syria."
A must listen.
Apr 10, 2017 11:34 PM
America's foremost expert in international affairs, having served under 5 Presidents, instrumental in the Camp David accords, in addition to playing a key role in regime changes around the globe for decades, Dr. Steve Pieczenik exploded with rage on the Alex Jones show yesterday -- warning Trump and his team that war crimes would follow if they pursued a neocon agenda of war in Syria, which the American people do not want.
"This is a warning to our generals, Mcmaster, and others, who think they can do a regime change in Syria. Number one, that will not be possible, not with the military, not with all the forces you have and not with the quality of the soldiers you have, the generals. Any notion of a regime change through force is both absurd or criminal. The issue of Syria and Assad have no national security interests to us at all. This will be an incredible dereliction of duty if we go to war in Syria."
He then warned Mcmaster and Mattis directly, saying that he will "come forth, and be tried for criminal activity, as will Mathis."
"There is no reason to put our men and women in harm's way for oil pipelines, or whatever nonsense that is military industrial complex thinks we need to do to get in the middle east. We have no interest in the middle east."
"There is no cause for war."
"Again, we're going through the nonsense of the neocons."
Dr. Pieczenik made his first public appearance in more than 30 years during the Presidential elections, saying in no uncertain terms that he represented a faction of the American intelligence community that would not allow Hillary Clinton to become the next President. Moreover, he claimed to be part of an organization that released the Podesta emails to Wikileaks. Interestingly, the mainstream media continues to ignore the good Doctor -- in spite of the fact that is resume is anything but conspiratorial. He is the real deal.
At one point in the interview, he got so heated that Jones had to cut him off when he threatened legal action against the President.
"If this goes any step further, this is a warning to our generals, to our President, and anyone involved. Once again, we will react quite vociferously and strongly. This is grounds for all types of legal action against the President."
He further elaborated on the situation in Syria as a war that is unwinnable, describing how the Assad family was firmly entrenched and could not be displaced by American forces, who have 'no idea what they're doing.'
"The people I know in the military are increasing their force structures to the degree that there is no strategy whatsoever. If you have no strategy, and regime change isn't a strategy, do not go to war."
"The President needs to understand, if he goes to war, that's his problem and we will have a major blowback, domestically. Our military is not prepared for this type of war. Our generals have no idea what they're doing."
A confused Jones, obviously caught off guard by the acrimonious tone of Dr. Pieczenik, asked what had changed from Friday to cause him to issues these warnings.
Pieczenik described, from a psyops point of view, the things he learned over the weekend that caused him to worry.
"But once I hear, and I understand there are more forces placed there over the weekend, there was artillery placed in there. And in fact, they are creating in the White House, what we call a dichotomy or two messages."
"You have a purposeful confusion."
"Do not go to war in Syria."
A must listen.
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It is the flash of a firefly in the night, the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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Newt Gingrich: Three critical things everyone needs to know about Trump's Syria airstrikes
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/04/11/newt-gingrich-three-critical-things-everyone-needs-to-know-about-trumps-syria-airstrikes.html?cmpid=NL_morninghl
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/04/11/newt-gingrich-three-critical-things-everyone-needs-to-know-about-trumps-syria-airstrikes.html?cmpid=NL_morninghl
There are some fascinating parallels between President Trump’s decisive but low-key military response to the Syrian chemical attack and President Reagan's equally decisive but low-key response to provocation by Libya in 1981.
In both cases a conservative Republican had replaced a weak liberal Democrat.
In both cases the liberal Democrat had talked a lot about moral power and key values but had been very unwilling to use the military. In both cases the military was left underfunded, under strength and undercapitalized so the incoming president had to advocate for a substantial military build-up.
In President Reagan's case the Libyan dictator, Qaddafi, had declared the Gulf of Sidra Libyan territory and had termed the line of entrance into the gulf as "the line of death."
Libyan fighters had fired on an American reconnaissance plane in1980 but President Carter had not responded to the challenge.
President Reagan wanted a low-cost way of showing that America was a tougher, more aggressive country. He asked the Navy what would happen if we deliberately crossed the "line of death" and the Libyans challenged us. The Navy assured him that they could handle the obsolete Libyan equipment with minimal risk. As a result, President Reagan authorized a large battle group including two nuclear powered carriers.
On August 19, 1981 two United States Navy F-14s shot down two Libyan aircraft for no losses.
As a sign of the new calm, steady American approach President Reagan told the press,
“If our planes were shot down, yes, they'd wake me up right away. If the other fellows were shot down, why wake me up?”
In one decisive understated fight President Reagan sent the Kremlin a signal that a new, tougher, and more risk taking American government was now prepared to challenge their efforts to control the world.
In commemoration of this decisive turning point there is an F-14 on display at the Reagan Presidential Library.
As an initial military action, there is a real similarity between the Reagan approach and what President Trump ordered on Thursday.
The Syrian dictatorship had clearly broken every agreement about chemical warfare and was using a vicious chemical weapon against civilians – including women and children.
In using these chemical weapons the Syrian military was violating a United Nations resolution and making a mockery of Russian assurances that the dictator Assad would refrain from using his chemical stockpiles.
President Trump had criticized his predecessor, President Obama, for setting red lines in Syria and then doing nothing. He had also criticized plans to put military forces on the ground to occupy the country.
The president had three choices. He could say a few noble words but do nothing in the Carter-Obama tradition. He could launch a major American ground campaign to replace Assad even if it meant confronting the Russians and the Iranians. Or he could use American technological strengths to launch a limited but very violent attack against a specific target, in this case the airfield from which the chemical weapons had come.
Much like President Reagan, President Trump chose a high-result, low-risk strategy. The United States hit the airfield with enough missiles that a powerful message was sent to Syria and the world. The United States is back in the business of leading from the front.
The way the Trump Administration dealt with the Russians was a good example of this new leadership. Putin was not consulted. The Russian military were warned through military channels of what we were doing and in effect were told to stay out of the way.
The fact is the United States is so much stronger than Russia that we can project power in a way they can't stop. President Trump's superb national security team knows how to apply military power and they showed it. This action took less than 48 hours to plan and it was powerful.
Three other points about President Trump's response.
First, he had just met this week with President al-Sisi of Egypt and King Abdullah of Jordan. He clearly had their advice on how to deal with Assad.
Second, he was in the middle of dinner with the Chinese Premier and stepped out to speak to the country about the missile attack in Syria. If the Chinese wanted a vivid demonstration of the change in American toughness they could hardly have had a more timely visit.
Third, the President's talk with the American people (and in fact with the world) was very emotional and very revealing. It is worth reading in its entirety.
I want to emphasize two parts of the talk.
First, President Trump grew very emotional when he reported "Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent, Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror.”
The emotion as he talked about "beautiful babies" is a real reminder of how much the President loves children and especially babies. You can see it in how he treats his own children, but it really came through in his remarks.
Finally, for the first time I can remember an American President said "God bless America and the entire world."
The president so many had feared was an isolationist has proven he will represent America first – but will also care for those in harm’s way around the world. It was a feeling President Reagan would have fully shared.
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What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night, the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
With deepest respect ~ Aloha & Mahalo, Carol
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjuUWr9vaXo&feature=youtu.be
Ron Paul Amazing "What If?" Speech
BRILLIANT!
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What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night, the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
With deepest respect ~ Aloha & Mahalo, Carol
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