Saudi Arabia’s air defense forces said that they intercepted a ballistic missile over Riyadh on Wednesday while another scout drone that targeted the border city of Jazan was also stopped.
Maliki said that after examining the debris of the object, specialists of the joint coalition forces said it was found to be a hostile Houthi aircraft with Iranian characteristics and specifications that were trying to target the airport protected under international humanitarian law.And Theresa May has apparently had it with Syria's savagery:
BRITAIN is today on the brink of war with Syria as Theresa May paved the way for imminent military action against Bashar al-Assad.The PM suggested the West now has strong proof the tyrant was responsible for a deadly chemical attack which killed dozens of innocent civilians.
And she admitted that efforts to hit back against Assad through the United Nations have failed - hinting at a more drastic response.And recall that she's none too keen on Russia - Assad's sponsor - in the wake of the poisoning of the ex-spy and his daughter on British soil last month.
Can you say "gathering momentum?"
Gee, you sound really excited.
ReplyDeleteI am too! Ready to watch Trump-Bolton roll. The moment you (and of coirse Bolton) have been waiting so impatiently for might soon arrive. The whole world will be watching, having to wait too. As Sarah said 8 times yesterday, on the heels of Teump's bellicose tweet, "all options are on the table." I suppose she thinks we get it. Do her repetitive phrases trump the current Commander in Chief's?
ReplyDeleteI seriously have no idea where you get this notion that I find this exciting.
ReplyDeleteObserving what is happening does not equate to excitement.
ReplyDeleteI know you found Ronnie's bombing of Lybia exciting as I called on you during it, you on a chair pulled up close to the tellie shouting "Dutch, Dutch! Tell me you're not a hawk.
ReplyDeleteThat was a direct response to the killing of US servicemen.
ReplyDeleteYour bringing it up is also a smokescreen. There is nothing ion my post indicating excitement.
OK, I believe you.
ReplyDeleteIt's just that a lot of your ilk seems to be excited about all this. It's all very concerning with what appears to be a very unstable Commander in chief and, if not the devil incarnate, a tried and true known uber-hawk who you appear to adore now in a sensitive national security position.
ReplyDeleteQuite the contrary.
ReplyDeleteJust this evening I've run across two conservative arguments for an easy-does-it approach at the present moment.
Of the two, I'm more inclined to see David French's point, although he doesn't spell out a sweet spot between the two moves he doesn't want to see happen: a massive missile barrage or complete pullout of troops:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/trump-is-poised-to-make-a-series-of-terrible-mistakes-in-syria/
Taylor Millard at Hot Air has a viewpoint I think you may at least kind of resonate with:
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/04/12/trump-syria-youll-never-know/
My opinion on more involvement in Syria hasn’t changed since 2013: we shouldn’t do anything militarily about the chemical weapons attack because it’s not our business. I wrote Sunday Assad wasn’t a threat to the United States, and as horribly awful the chemical weapons attack was, Syria is in the middle of a civil war. The Western involvement in the civil war has actually destabilized the area even more, and caused more problems. It helped ISIS’ rise, escalated further the entire refugee crisis in Europe, and probably prolonged the civil war itself. The U.S. shouldn’t be Team America: World Police, and there are limits to military might. It’s time to end our military involvement in Syria, and get out.
Of course, French would disagree with this total-get-out stance, but neither of them endorses a major act of war.
The core of the matter is that the Syrian civil war, shortly after it started as part of the Arab spring in 2011, became a multilayered Gordian knot of various Kurdish groups, ISIS, other jihadists (some of which could not work with ISIS), Iran and proxy groups, and lately, Turkey.
Add to that the point on which you and I agree - that the VSG is so inconsistent and incoherent that he can't formulate an actual policy for all this - and it adds up to a volatile situation.
That's what LITD is trying to stress in Syria-related posts.
"...we shouldn’t do anything militarily about the chemical weapons attack because it’s not our business..."
DeleteI see the real lesson of 9/11, that we are no longer safely ensconced between two oceans and invulnerable to the events of the rest of the world, has managed to escape you. Perhaps this "hands off" policy towards to use of WMDs informs your view regarding the attempts to slow down Iran's nuclear weapons program and your enthusiasm for tearing up the internationally-devised curbs on those efforts (which are inconveniently working just fine).
And I think I differ with your conclusion that ISIS is all our fault.
DeleteI didn't say that. I was merely passing along some viewpoints that I think merit consideration.
DeleteMaybe I'll see you at that big patriotic pahradw this summa, you goin? It's gonna be terrific, all that shiny military hardware and all. The Super Dooper Bowl of military pahrades...
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll see you at that big patriotic pahradw this summa, you goin? It's gonna be terrific, all that shiny military hardware and all. The Super Dooper Bowl of military pahrades...
ReplyDeleteAnd we're gonna have that cool Space Force now u know.
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