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Jihadis cheer Trump’s missile strike on Syria

Apr 7, 2017 1:34 pm By Robert Spencer

Trump is acting as the Islamic State’s air force. And the Islamic State is delighted.

“Radical Islamists Cheer Trump Administration’s Missile Strike,” by Alex Pfeiffer, Daily Caller, April 7, 2017:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. John McCain cheered the Trump administration’s decision Thursday to strike the Assad regime, as did Syrian rebel groups which seek to impose Sharia law.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted a “key figure” in the Army of Islam, or Jaysh al-Islam, as saying, “Hitting one airbase is not enough, there are 26 airbases that target civilians.” The AFP article just identified Jaysh al-Islam as a rebel group and didn’t point out that the organization seeks to replace the Assad regime with a government ruled by Sharia law.

MSNBC also reported that the rebels Ahrar al-Sham “welcome US intervention through surgical strikes that would deter regime capabilities to kill civilians.” The U.S. considers Ahrar al-Sham one of the most effective rebel groups in Syria, according to a report from Stanford University. The group also worked with ISIS until 2014, is sympathetic with Al-Qaeda, and seeks to create an Islamic state in Syria.

A video from 2015 purportedly shows members of al-Sham flogging men for keeping their shops open during prayer hours.

Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard responded to Trump’s strike on Syria by saying that the action will help Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie said that the attack on the Assad regime will “make the situation better for ISIS.”…

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  1. mousey says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 1:50 pm

    Why? Why did trump do such a thing? I want to grab hold his shoulders and shake him, “what’s the matter with you?”

    • Steve Klein says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 6:18 pm

      I believe the president did the right thing.

      • Peggy says

        Apr 9, 2017 at 10:42 pm

        Steve Klein says

        April 7, 2017 at 8:20 pm

        You are a sorry excuse for a human being.
        —————————————
        No, You are.
        You’re either on the side of evil or an absolute idiot.

    • steve1 says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 8:46 pm

      Hello People,

      You can contact the White House and let them know how you feel here:
      https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

      • steve1 says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 8:51 pm

        NO U.S. WAR IN SYRIA!!!

    • DFD says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 2:11 am

      Somebody, Mousey and Marco
      ========================.

      Answer to your question is her, the name is Kalergi, plus Frankfurters and some others, Kalergi will do as an intro. Go to and download the blueprint:

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/german-minister-proposes-registry-of-mosques-monitoring-of-islamic-sermons/comment-page-1#comment-1644602

      • mousey says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 10:45 am

        thanks much dfd, i’ve never…cough sorry for my uninformedness…heard of all this. I’m happy you directed us to it, and will spend more time looking into it–i only so far watched the videos. It initially reminds me of something i read once about monsanto and their wanting only one seed for a crop…taking all the diversity out. What could be stupider? Or, i guess in this case it’s the whites that have to go. It’s very weird, the world is filled with very weird power hungry people, i look forward to reading the pdf on kalergi. Thank you.

        • DFD says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 3:28 pm

          There’s a lot more. Stay in touch. I gather you are German? I am Anglo-German.

          Well, get kalergi under your belt first.

    • tom parry says

      Apr 11, 2017 at 5:40 pm

      because he used chmeical wepons (you idiot) – not even hitle rused them

  2. Jean Terry says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    He had to do this. Chemical weapons on anyone is unconscionable. Sadly, Assad is very evil but runs a secular government. So it is a mixed thing. The Middle East is impossible. Fortunately, God will sort it out in the e nd.

    • mousey says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 2:22 pm

      i’ve watched videos of assad talk, i know a little about him. I can say, from his manner, tone, eyes, body language, i find him…well, good. Since you are very sure he is very evil, what information do you have that proves this? Could you list your reasons, i would be happy to be informed.

      • Karen says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 6:14 pm

        Sociopaths and psychopaths often make a good impression! They are adept at presenting an image that gains trust, making easy for us to misjudge them. Assad is also highly educated and intelligent, so he can connect in those ways also.

        • mousey says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 7:44 pm

          I honestly don’t believe major monsters can hide what they do and think from their faces, maybe 1 in a million, i don’t know. You can look at a face and you can see them, doesn’t matter what they say, they can’t hide. Using chemical weapons is not just bad. I think it is you who have been taken in by anti assad propaganda. They want him out! Go watch some videos of him being interviewed. And even if you think he’s a master fooler from head to toe including his western clad wife and children, he has NO logical reason to kill 70 civilians. He’s trying to save syrians. He’s after isis, not his own people.

        • Mockingjay says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 7:55 pm

          That’s right mousey. Assad had NOTHING to gain from a chemical attack.

          Absolutely nothing. Why doesn’t anyone understand that?

        • mousey says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 9:03 pm

          you know mockingjay, i was just looking around and do you suppose this is possible:

          The Russian Defense Ministry said the Syrian military carried out airstrikes in Khan Sheikhoun on April 4, hitting production facilities where terrorists stored chemicals, which were previously used in Iraq and the Syrian city of Aleppo.

          that would make it look like the syrian army did a chemical attack.

      • Ciudadano says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 6:21 pm

        Hitler was also, at a persona level, a nice person, he was even vegetarian

        • Mockingjay says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 7:52 pm

          Hitler wasn’t a nice person.

          Ever watched “Der Untergang” ? – There you see the real Hitler.

          – And btw – being a vegetarian says absolutely nothing.

          Most vegetarians are Leftists. All very nice people.

      • Peggy says

        Apr 10, 2017 at 7:58 pm

        Mockingjay says

        April 7, 2017 at 7:55 pm

        That’s right mousey. Assad had NOTHING to gain from a chemical attack.

        Absolutely nothing. Why doesn’t anyone understand that?
        ————————————-
        Maybe because they don’t want to. It’s easier that way because their prejudices are too great.

    • Mac-101 says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 2:36 pm

      And why would he have used chemical weapons when he is gaining ground and has Russian support and Trump said last week Assad didn’t have to go? False Flag!

      • Peggy says

        Apr 9, 2017 at 10:45 pm

        Why would Trump react to such an obvious trick?
        He knew exactly who were the bad guys before his election and now all of a sudden he is confused?
        No bloody likely. Something is very, very wrong over there. This is not the same Trump who was elected.
        He has turned.

    • rara says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 2:53 pm

      Explain why would it be impossible for ISIS – or whichever “moderate” soldiers to detonate a few nerve gas bombs themselves?

      They are the only one who’d benefit.

    • salim says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 4:10 pm

      A couple of years ago I met an eye surgeon who knew Assad when he was in the UK. described him as very nice, polite, secular and civilised. The media can demonise anyone they want.

      • Skeeter says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 9:27 pm

        Do weapons not go through Syria from Iran to Gaza and Lebanon so Hezbollah and Hamas can launch missiles into Israel willy-nilly? I guess Assad has nothing to do with that either.

    • Steve Klein says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 6:20 pm

      “He had to do this. Chemical weapons on anyone is unconscionable….”

      Bingo.

      • Peggy says

        Apr 9, 2017 at 10:47 pm

        Then he should’ve hit the people responsible and that’s not Assad.

        • Peggy says

          Apr 10, 2017 at 8:01 pm

          Joan C said:

          Trump could have given the American people some kind of proof or evidence that Assad did this, instead of just saying, the so called “intelligence” was there!! Anyone tell me what the “intelligence” consists of??
          ————————————–

          Doesn’t this remind you of “The Russians hacked into the servers” scenario.
          No evidence, just intelligence says this or that.
          I really don’t like seeing the same behaviour in Trump.

    • vlparker says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 6:54 pm

      No he didn’t. Syria is full of evil Islamic factions waiting to step into the breach. If Assad is taken out it will only result in another evil faction, maybe even ISIS, taking his place. Assad is no threat to the US.

      What was that Trump said very recently about not being the president of the US not of the world?

      • vlparker says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 6:56 pm

        That should say “about being the president of the US not the world.”

      • Skeeter says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 9:29 pm

        Thanks for the Russian/Iranian line.

        • mousey says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 10:58 am

          skeeter, abc news who is not russian or iranian is it? says:
          …Two Syrian jets took off today from the air base that was hit by U.S. missiles and carried out strikes on areas under ISIS control in the countryside of eastern Homs,

          so, isis is in the area according to a lot of people, as i said.
          and how would isis NOT take advantage of a blow to its enemy?

    • Karen says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 8:38 pm

      Agree that it’s a mixed bag, and an impossible set of choices.

  3. Skeeter says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 2:07 pm

    We might all remember, Israel has hit targets in Syria a dozen times in the last 2 years. Anyway, the mickey mouse Russian/Iranian/Syrian line is that all against Assad are terrorists, then who is showing up at the peace talks? Why isn’t Russia attacking the ISIS capitol of Raqqa? Well done Trump, most Syrian refugees are leaving because of Assad so why do Conservatives think this hit was bad if they are against all the refugees coming in?

    • mousey says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 10:39 pm

      i’ve seen interviews in aleppo just a little while back and the people are saying finally assad has gotten the rebels out and they can return to their homes after 4 years.

      • Peggy says

        Apr 9, 2017 at 10:53 pm

        I’ve listened to Syrian Christians talking on our radio station in Melbourne how Assad is the only solution for them. They praise him for defending them from Islamists.
        This is what we have to take into account, not some false flag.

    • underbed cat says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 10:28 am

      Just curious, hitting targets in Syria by Israel, could mean hitting sharia bent isis, who we consider terrorists…hitting targets in Syria by Assad could mean attacking isis terrorist or whatever Islamic terrorist fights Syrians I have been under the impression that Assad protected unbelievers in his country. So is the interview in Aleppo that Assad removed the rebels identity isis and they can return to their homes…after 4 years..that mousey described and I viewed also, can be very confusing as to the intent of Assad using chemical weapons and isis cheering after the U.S. intervened.

  4. Savvy Kafir says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    When will we learn to stay OUT of Muslim-on-Muslim wars?

    • Red Bee says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 2:48 pm

      USA did vote for a successful businessman. This salesman did prove he can make a fortune with his tactics. Trump plays on power & maybe this is what his opponents understand and respect. Hair force 1 has a good chance to survive in the global powerplay in my opinion.

      In the meantime we must see to it more people become aware of the threat of Islam. You find my contribution when you click my name.

      Greetings from the Netherlands,

      Red Bee

    • JayT says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 3:43 pm

      Savvy Kafir says

      April 7, 2017 at 2:08 pm

      When will we learn to stay OUT of Muslim-on-Muslim wars?
      ———————————————————————————————————————————————-

      Assad is an Alawite so the groups like Al Nustra-ISIS-etc. and probably Erdogan in Turkey regard him as a non-Muslim or something like a mongrel.

      I rarely find myself in disagreement with the posters here, but on this I am disappointed that too many here think that nerve gas used on women and children and farmers, etc. is okay for the U.S. to turn a blind eye toward.

      I sure do understand it’s not cut and dried, and we can’t run around the world as the world’s policeman, but I think this was a good and needed response. It tells Assad that he can keep fighting his war against the Jihadists, but he’s got to lay off copying “Chemical Ali” – a relative of Saddam Hussein who also used chemical weapons on his own people. It tells the rest of the world that somethings are not going to be acceptable to the U.S. If none will stand against it, then why should other bad actor dictators refrain from doing the same?

      For those of you who think it was the Jihadists and not Assad behind this? Oh c’mon and wake up. You think the intelligence assets Trump and administration have are equal or less to you and your internet searches? Really? Assad was fingered before by U.S. intelligence assets (which probably include feedback from Israeli assets) for chemical attacks on his own people. His father was known to slaughter an entire city rebelling against him, and then have it bull-dozed over. The apple don’t fall far from the tree here.

      Unlike the weakling Obama, this also sends multiple messages across the world and even right next to the seat of Trump (Yes, you Mr. Chinese President). Russia, China, and the fat boy in North Korea are all aware Trump will stand against wholesale slaughter of non-combatants in small communities by way of weapons like nerve gas. It also tells them that they need to be very careful how they behave on the world stage with Trump in charge.

      In the end, there is no way to win for the U.S. over there. Assad stays in power = major POS and an enemy of the U.S. as well as Israel. Assad gets booted = Jihadists taking over and accessing heavy weapons plus the chemical weapons that Assad wasn’t supposed to have as part of the disposal deal under Obama (well, look how that turned out). In this case, I do believe the devil we know makes us slightly better off than the devil in waiting. Assad hasn’t tried to consistently kill Americans in the U.S., but the Jihadists, should they get full control over Syria, sure will using Syria’s military resources.

      • Steve Klein says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 6:22 pm

        “I rarely find myself in disagreement with the posters here, but on this I am disappointed that too many here think that nerve gas used on women and children and farmers, etc. is okay for the U.S. to turn a blind eye toward.”

        Right.

        • Peggy says

          Apr 9, 2017 at 10:56 pm

          I agree, all those who used the gas should pay but what proof do you have it was Assad and why would he do this when things were finally going his way?

          Think about it for a while. It will come to you.

      • vlparker says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 7:03 pm

        What about ISIS burning people alive? Or drowning them? Taking out Assad strengthens ISIS, who are actually a threat to the US. They have been behind terrorist activities in the US. Assad is no threat to the US. So why help our enemies? Gassing people is awful, but is it any worse than burning them alive?

        • Savvy Kafir says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 9:32 am

          Exactly. ISIS buries women and children alive, burns people to death, throws gays off roofs and stones them to death, and crucifies people — AND they pose a threat to non- Muslims in the West.

          Women and children are going to die in this war, because those waging the war, on both sides, are savages. One side poses a direct threat to the civilized world; the other side doesn’t.

      • Vic says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 8:07 pm

        Exactly right. Thank you.

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 10:55 pm

        I agree. The middle east is doomed because it is populated by monsters and monster-enablers.

        Return all Muslims to the Middle East and let the depopulation begin in earnest.

        • Godwin says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 7:20 am

          Yes, we should let them follow their different doctrines to kill off each other.

  5. salim says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    As long as Turkey and the Saudis are laughing ( and now isis), you know there is something wrong.

    I just met an old colleague in the supermarket who reminded me with the Arabic adage “Allah made ceramics break ceramics for the sake of Islam”. ( He meant our enemies break our enemies)

    Trump surprised every one with his strike: its speed, target, lack of solid evidence and lack of consultation or approval of the congress. unacceptable from a man who seven times criticised Obama for doing the same.

    Mohammed Bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, said after his meeting with Trump “Muslims have no better friend than Trump”. I just hope he is very wrong.

    • mousey says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 2:23 pm

      from a syrian news agency:

      The Army’s Command said the US’s attempt to justify this aggression by saying that it is in response to the Syrian army’s use of chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun town in Idleb without yet determining the reality of and the perpetrators behind what happened there “sends wrong messages to the terrorist organizations that would embolden them further to use chemical weapons in the future every time they suffer heavy losses in the battlefield.”

      • no_one says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 2:43 pm

        I agree. Trump is extremely stupid.

      • Skeeter says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 6:46 am

        At least he’s not a terrorist like Assad and Putin, we really are getting russian propaganda here and trash like info wars and their fema zones, these participants are really bringing down any discussion with an obvious show of no knowledge.

        • mousey says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 11:07 am

          oh skeeter…come on.
          the last time assad was blamed didn’t it come out it wasn’t assad afterall. I may not have much knowledge but if isis did arrange the attack, or assad’s guys did bomb an isis chemical factory–and can you say you KNOW that those evil guys are innocent??—then wouldn’t you,if you were an isis thug, be emboldened from the plan working?

          yes you would. If something works, you do it again. I’m not saying isis did it, i’m saying people don’t know yet who did it. So do a little investigating before you’re so sure you go a-bombing.

        • Peggy says

          Apr 9, 2017 at 10:59 pm

          Riiight, we need you to educate us.
          Now go back to praying five times a day.

    • EmHotep says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 3:52 pm

      Hi Salim, you are right, today in Turkey Erdogan and his terrorist partners celebrated the US bombing. Erdogan even asks more of those tomahawks from the US. We are completely fucked up because we are the secular opposition and there is a referendum next sunday to make erdogan the new caliph.

      We are of course on the NO side but these type of actions from US doesn’t help us.

      Erdogan must be stopped.

      • salim says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 4:03 pm

        EmHotep
        Are you from Turkey? although your name suggests Egypt. just curious.

        • EmHotep says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 4:26 pm

          Yes I am from Turkey EmHotep is my nick name.

          http://witchystella.deviantart.com/art/Em-Hotep-472248748

          “In Peace”

      • Eric Jones says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 10:02 pm

        Good luck with stoping Erdogan.

        Eric

    • EmHotep says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 3:57 pm

      US informed Turkey before the attack.

      http://washingtonhatti.com/2017/04/07/turkey-told-about-strikes-by-washington-before-launched-turkish-fm/

  6. Wellington says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 2:34 pm

    Keep this in mind: If Trump had struck ISIS, the Iranians and Putin would have benefited. Trump can only win by eventually hitting most everyone in that God-forsaken country of Syria. Thus this strike by Trump seen in isolation is simply not good enough. And remember, the Iranians and Putin don’t like what Trump did and I like it when the Iranians and Putin don’t like something.

    Think expansively. Think long term.

    • no_one says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 2:45 pm

      And I don’t like what Trump did and stopped supporting him. I will join the resistance and protests.

      • Mac-101 says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 2:54 pm

        Make sure you don’t become a Soros Puppet!

        • no_one says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 3:11 pm

          I don’t think so. Not getting paid by Soros.

        • Mac-101 says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 5:17 pm

          no-one The worse thing is most of Soros’s Useful Idiots do NOT git payed!

      • Wellington says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 3:31 pm

        So, Trump does one thing you don’t like and you abandon him. Talk about a fair-weather friend. If you’re only going to support people who do all that you want, you live in a dream world and are not constructive in building a better society. Keep in mind that the perfect is the enemy of the good.

        • no_one says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 4:44 pm

          Trump dis many things wrong. I was forgiving, but now I have had it.

        • Karen says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 5:27 pm

          Trump hasn’t even been in office 3 months. Let’s give him a fair shake! ? He has a lot of garbage to clean up.

    • rara says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 2:57 pm

      And how is Putin any threat at all? Have you ever tried to see the number and the placement of the US military bases in the world? It’s instructive.

      • Wellington says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 3:28 pm

        Yes, rara, those US bases exist in places like South Korea, Japan, Germany, etc. for the protection and promotion of freedom. When have Russian bases existed for such a purpose? Also, America has made it very clear that any country that does not want our military in it need only tell us and we’ll leave, as we did in the Philippines. When has Russia accorded itself this way? Doubt me, then ask the Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians——-ah, it’s a long list. Yeah, ask these people and try putting a lid on your moral equivalency thinking while you’re at.

        Respecting Putin specifically, he’s a killer, he makes trouble in lots of places, he pines for the reconstitution of the old USSR. He hates NATO, the greatest military alliance in history for the guarding of liberty (and yes I know that Turkey under Erdogan being in NATO is a disgrace but when Turkey first entered NATO it was a highly secularized nation and a bulwark against the USSR). He’s buddy/buddy with Iran. He’s trouble enough.

        • rara says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 4:37 pm

          You effectively haven’t answered my question though. As I’ve said, the supremacy of the US military is absolutely obvious, there’s no need to “invent” the “bad” Putin to have most of the world under the control – it already is, try to see any map. Aren’t “Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians” already outside of Russia and Russian military influence? Also on the map. I really don’t see any rational argument there.

        • rara says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 4:55 pm

          And regarding “hates NATO,” do you know since when? From Wikipedia: “On 6 June 2011, NATO and Russia participated in their first ever joint fighter jet exercise.”

        • Wellington says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 4:56 pm

          Yeah, rara, I did effectively answer your two questions only you didn’t get it that I did.

          Said peoples that you named are, as of present, “outside of Russia and Russian military influence” but if you believe Putin wants it to remain this way, then you are even more clueless than I first thought. As George Kennan correctly opined, Russia looks upon its neighbors as vassals or enemies. A country like Poland knows this only too well, which helps explain why it so very much wanted to be in NATO.

          And if you think Putin isn’t a bad actor on the world stage, well there’s not much more I can do for you. The guy is trouble for everyone, including Russia long term. He’s a bully and is vastly ignorant of the West, especially America. I really don’t see any rational argument on your part, whether about Putin or comprehension that the American military is the single greatest guarantor of what peace remains in this world. As the Canadian, Mark Steyn, said, “A world without America would be a world that would be subject to the tyrants of the earth.” Just so. And one of these present tyrants is Putin and one knows this or should know this. You don’t.

        • Wellington says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 5:49 pm

          That joint fighter exercise was pro forma crap (and done when that weakling of a President, Obama, was Chief Executive).

          Really, rara, are you truly as naïve as you appear to be?

        • mousey says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 9:10 pm

          but wellington i gotta say i’m attracted to putin’s reaction to the chemical situation:

          In particular, Putin “pointed out that it was unacceptable to make groundless accusations against anyone without conducting a detailed and unbiased investigation.”

        • Peggy says

          Apr 10, 2017 at 12:23 am

          ? Also, America has made it very clear that any country that does not want our military in it need only tell us and we’ll leave,
          =======================
          Not quite so.
          Serbia wanted the US to leave Kosovo and all they did was encourage them to declare independence and they no longer needed permission.
          How’s that for being a good guest? More like a squatter who won’t leave.

    • Abu Lahab says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 3:13 pm

      Wellington, this is the second time you have said this stupid garbage on this board.

      Putin and Assad have NOT sent terrorists into America to KILL Americans.

      The Islamic State has. Al Qaeda has.

      Get your damn head out the sand.

      Don’t you get it? There is no “winning” when it comes to “nationbuilding” in Islamic lands. Not in Iraq, hell, not even in Afghanistan, where we supported “former” Taliban and drug dealer Karzai (and defender of pedos) for YEARS. There will be no nation-building in Syria. All we can do is retreat, tighten our borders, stop buying oil from the Gulf, and educate, educate, educate people on the religion of Peace.

      • Wellington says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 8:16 pm

        You set up a straw man, Abu Lahab, and then knock it down. How brave and wise of you. I mean there are many ways to harm a nation, sending actual terrorists into a country to kill is only one of them.

        Do I despise ISIS? You’re damn right I do. But I also despise the ever troubling making Putin (and Baby Assad too, who like his father is just another ruthless Middle Eastern reprobate), who wants to reconstitute the USSR in effect, who has had many opponents killed (deny this and I will know you are in denial), has interfered in sundry Western elections (including hacking the Democratic Party’s e-mail system, though doing so, I fully admit, only helped Trump and hurt Hillary, whereby Russia stumbled into something good), who presides over a horribly corrupt Russian economic system, who has contempt for the West at large, and who time and time again fulfills the worst stereotypes of the Russians as xenophobic, paranoid and eternal enemies of liberty. Doubt me, then consult Eastern Europeans, like the Poles, Estonians and Czechs, as a way of sustaining my overall argument in this regard. Oh yeah, do so.

        Additionally,I would mention here to you that so many times that I refer to a Putin apologist, like you, and bring up Eastern Europeans such as the ones I named, NEVER do I get any response from someone like you about what such peoples think of the Russians. Telling. Damning. Instructive. But go ahead and prove the exception to my rule here. Oh yeah, waiting, but I won’t hold my breath.

        Moreover, where have I called for nation-building in any of my many posts at JW today? Nowhere. Again you set up a straw man against me and then knock it down. Cheap stuff on your part. Just because Trump did one bombing (actually, I hope he does more, against ISIS and all the other rogues in Syria), this means I’m into nation building? C’mon. Get a life, will ya’. Or at least give a shot at accuracy.

        Bush had to take out Saddam Hussein, who was a megalomaniac out of control and which EVERY major intelligence agency on the planet back in 2003 thought had WMDs. Where Bush made a huge error was in thinking that real democracy could be implemented in a Muslim country. Big mistake. As I have argued many times here at JW, Bush should have installed a Mubarak-type authoritarian after getting rid of SH and kept, perhaps, a few American Special Forces in Iraq to deal with the extra bad guys still lurking around.

        So, I say to you, get your head out of the sand (or is it your ass?) and wake up to the world of Realpolitik, which would include, and this is where I agree with you, informing the West at large of the totally effed-up, bad-news, permanently-warped religion which is Islam.

        Your turn if you care. Hey, give it a shot. Besides, and ending on a somewhat positive note, we may be closer on matters than you think. But don’t assume things about me as you did in your previous post which are clearly not true. Strive for accuracy. It’s a good thing, you know.

    • Adrian says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 3:50 pm

      Agreed, Wellington… this is a message being sent to many nations, including Russia, which is nefariously involved with many forces in the Mideast… it could also be a message to stop further warfare against Ukraine… it is a message to the world that Trump is to be reckoned with

      • Peggy says

        Apr 10, 2017 at 12:33 am

        So only the US has the right to meddle in any part of the world they wish.
        Spoken like a true dictator.

        What you fail to see is that Assad (whether you like him or not) is the best choice out of all that is presented to us form that region. If you can think of a better one then please let us know.
        What is the point in rubbishing Assad if you don’t have an alternative to take his place? Really, what’s your point?
        What is Trump’s plan? Hit Assad so hard that ISIS can take over with ease? Who does he hope to replace him with?
        Does he even have a plan?

    • Peggy says

      Apr 9, 2017 at 11:02 pm

      Maybe you should listen to what Syrian Christians are saying. I think they know a lot more about Assad than you do.
      I have heard them praise him so just because Putin is on their side doesn’t make them wrong or Putin evil.
      Trump is a huge disappointment now. They have turned him.

  7. Rob says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 3:07 pm

    “Trump is acting as the Islamic State’s air force.”

    And you, Robert Spencer, are acting as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s propaganda mouthpiece. That makes about as much sense as what you wrote. You’re too dim-witted to comprehend anything other than a starkly black/white geopolitical situation.

    • Abu Lahab says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 3:14 pm

      Nope, he has it EXACTLY right as always. Spencer ripped hard on Obama, he ripped hard on Bush, and he has now proven that he will rip hard on Trump when he is WRONG.

    • Richie says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 3:20 pm

      Sorry, even though I voted for Trump I will not be in tockstep and nod my head in agreement with his every action. He authorized an attack that benefited ISIS

      • Wellington says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 5:44 pm

        But Richie, if Trump had launched an attack AGAINST ISIS, don’t you see how this would have benefited the Iranians and Putin? I trust you get my overall point. Hope so.

        • Peggy says

          Apr 10, 2017 at 12:37 am

          But Wellington, wasn’t Trump saying only yesterday that he thinks what Putin is doing is right and he wants to establish a good relationship with him?
          He turns 180 degrees without any proof. Is that normal?

      • DFD says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 2:42 am

        Richie,

        Hi, he benefited ISIS **dramatically**, he is the only enemy they really fear, and who actually fights them, relentlessly.

        We’ve been there before, 2013, again Assad and Sarin. Obama: “…now he crossed the red line, etc. bla bla…” Problem: The CIA pointed out to him that Assad doesn’t have any means to manufacture Sarin, to store it, and simply doesn’t have it. But Turkey has, Turkey manufactures it, and has stores of it, plus the means to deliver it.” Thus it went quite.

        Now, the same crap again.

        Let’s get this right: Assad is supposed to be bombing the very people who place their hopes in him. Remember, when he liberated Aleppo, they celebrated Christmas with Christmas trees. Now he is supposed to bomb his very people with an uncontrollable and unpredictable substance, that can easily drift upon his own troops!

        And everybody falls for it!
        ====================.

        Incredible, just incredible. Trump is **not** THE Saviour. BTW, Trump owes Soros about $60-100million in form of a mezzanine loan – which Soros has written off, as a gift without any obligation. Isn’t Soros a loveable chap? Check on Trumps Chicago Tower and the financing of it! (Incidentally, total value, including amortization, approx $300million plus!)

        I too believed and hoped in Trump. Oh brother! Bannon gone, four Goldman Sachs guys in his cabinet, and one of the a Soros man…

        What next…..?

    • Richie says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 3:24 pm

      :”You’re too dim-witted to comprehend anything other than a starkly black/white geopolitical situation.”

      Rob. I can assure you Robert Spencer is your intellectual superior. How many books have you written.?
      Maybe you’d be happier back on Huffington post. Trump let the mask slip,and he revealed himself to either be a neocon, or their willing instrument- and if this is the path he’ll follow, he will be out the door in 2020

      • DFD says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 2:46 am

        2020? If he continues as he does, I doubt that he will last that long. Ultimately that of course depends on Soros.

    • Peggy says

      Apr 9, 2017 at 11:04 pm

      So you came here to teach Robert about Islam and what goes on in that part of the world.
      Don’t make a fool of yourself.
      If you really want to teach Robert something maybe you should challenge him to a debate.

  8. Richie says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 3:16 pm

    Trump just lost a very sizable portion of his base. Are we going to go in nation building again, and occupy Syria for years to come at the cost of billions of dollars? Already neocons are insisting Syria has stashes of WMDs. Trump will be a one term wonder Im afraid. God help us if Hillary runs again and wins in 2020

    • no_one says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 4:47 pm

      I agree. Trump has lost a lot of his supporters. Hillary may win in 2020 if she runs again. Trump did nothing for Obama care. His picks of staff are bad, like McMaster and Mattis. He doesn’t understand islam. I am not sure he is any better than Hillary.

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 11:24 pm

        Hillary won’t win in 2020, because by then the women of America will know that she supports the girls and women of the world being ritually mutilated by the Sex & Death Cult.

    • Wellington says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 5:45 pm

      I believe you judge too soon. Many do you know.

  9. RichardL says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    this is the first time, but I have to disagree with all of you.

    Trump attacked one of 27 active airbases in order to send a signal not to target civilians. That is the right thing. Anyone who believes that “my enemy’s enemy, is my friend” is a good policy is an idiot. There are no right sides in this conflict.

    If Assad stays away from WMDs and civilians, Trump will not interfere.

    The jihadis will be bombed whether or not they use WMDs.

    • Wellington says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 4:11 pm

      “this{sic} is the first time, but I have to disagree with all of you.”

      How. RichardL, does my 2:34 P.M. comment on this thread and other comments on this thread by me put me in opposition to what you stated? Just wondering.

      • RichardL says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 1:40 am

        well, I think the US should stay out of the conflict and that this strike was not not the start, but just “signalling”.

        I am also against bombing IS. They are embedded and it would always hit civilians. Trump won’t do it.

        Trump will make sure that Syrian jihadis are contained in Syria. They can kill each other, kill Russians and Syrians all they want. Just not with WMDs. Big no-no.

        The only people I would go after with drones were the Iranians. Provoke them into action against the US and then hit Iran hard and destroy the regime.

        • Peggy says

          Apr 10, 2017 at 8:14 pm

          What would you do with SA, Qatar or Kuwait?
          You don’t think they finance the terrorists? SA is far worse than Iran because they are sponsoring terrorism all over the world including the cities we live in.
          Then there is a question of safety. Trump won’t go after terrorists because they are among he civilians who are suffering as a result but the very people doing the dangerous work of a ground war get hit because of some accusation which has not been substantiated.

          If those canisters weren’t so quickly removed what do you think would happen when they are bombed? There is a village close by. Do you not think that those chemicals weren’t going to spread over a huge area and kill them?
          It certainly doesn’t look like Trump was thinking of protecting the innocent civilians.

    • JayT says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 4:42 pm

      RichardL, I also believe this is my first time disagreeing with the majority of the posters on the validity of this missile strike. My reasons mirrored your own, but I’d like to clarify it was a message over the means of killing civilians. I think, and maybe someone more knowledgeable on the war situation over there can correct me, that Assad has already been killing his civilian women and children? So it is the means we object to. Nerve gas where the victims are literally foaming from the mouth is unacceptable to most Americans. Yes, a hard core realist can ask, “So? Dead is dead. What’s the difference whether it’s a bullet or gas or germ or virus?” I think the answer has to to with the level of agony one would experience. That’s probably the main reasoning behind our own Constitutional law about cruel and unusual punishment.

      My question is this? I posted that Putin only has to station his people (human shields) at all the air bases and potential targets and then inform Trump he won’t move them out of the way no matter what. Would that not effectively stop any future strikes should Assad go for the gas canisters again? If Putin was against the use of gas then why didn’t he have all of it removed from Assad’s hands after the first time it happened? Russia was given the responsibility of acquiring and disposing of the gas from Assad under the Obama agreement, no?

      • mousey says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 9:16 pm

        How do you KNOW, for sure, this isn’t true:

        The Russian Defense Ministry said the Syrian military carried out airstrikes in Khan Sheikhoun on April 4, hitting production facilities where terrorists stored chemicals, which were previously used in Iraq and the Syrian city of Aleppo.

        • Skeeter says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 6:34 am

          Looks like the russian pansies are now being implicated in being involved in this bombing. Seeing how ISIS has many, many russian speakers, I look forward to this blog highlighting this fact.

    • Peggy says

      Apr 9, 2017 at 11:09 pm

      But it wasn’t Assad who was targeting civilians.
      What do you think he had to gain by this? Things were going fine for him so he had no need to do it.
      Who benefits from this? ISIS, that’s who so always ask yourself who benefits before you buy something like this.

  10. Karen says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 3:41 pm

    Always our problem is that most countries in the world are not like those in the West; the West is the exception to the rule of despots and worse. Normally our choice is between one of these 50’s style dictators and some group posing as ‘liberators’. Will ‘the people’ be better off under ISIS rule? Of course not. But it’s hard to get enthusiastic about the vicious Assad family. Stability or change? The known vs. the unknown? Some choice.

    • mousey says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 3:57 pm

      can someone kindly tell me why they think assad is vicious and evil? Specifically.

      • Skeeter says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 4:04 pm

        Bush admin almost expanded the invasion of Iraq into Syria because Assad allowed Jihadists free rein, oh, but how we forget that or that Assad is a front for Iran and seems Robert Spencer calls Iran the largest state sponsor of terrorism, arms are funneled through Syria to Hezbollah and Hamas to attack Israel and as far as I’m concerned, the Syrian Regime helped Iran kill American and Coalition soldiers but what is there to dislike about him? Gassing children?

        • Peggy says

          Apr 9, 2017 at 11:16 pm

          Bush administration was no better than Obama administration. Both evil.
          Both lying about everything and you are going to use them as some credible source?
          ——————

          “as far as I’m concerned, the Syrian Regime helped Iran kill American and Coalition soldiers but what is there to dislike about him? Gassing children?”
          ——————-
          You will find that in a war all sides kill all sides. ISIS is killing children on our land so by attacking Assad you are helping ISIS. Is this where you want to go?

          There IS NO PROOF that Assad did anything. Where is the proof then? Has anyone presented it?
          Now be a good little Muslim and go back to your prayers.

      • Karen says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 5:06 pm

        It’s quite simple to find specific allegations against the Assads. Look at Bashar al-Assad’s Wikipedia bio; prior to the civil war, the Assads were typical ‘strong men’ of the cult of personality – they provided stability, which benefited many, through the use of secret police, which also hurt many. So in this way they were run of the mill counterparts to the likes of Saddam Hussein.

        Then things escalate when the civil war started. From the same bio, ‘war crimes’ section:

        “The UN Commission reported finding “unimaginable abuses”, including women and children as young as seven perishing while being held by Syrian authorities. The report also stated: “There are reasonable grounds to believe that high-ranking officers—including the heads of branches and directorates—commanding these detention facilities, those in charge of the military police, as well as their civilian superiors, knew of the vast number of deaths occurring in detention facilities … yet did not take action to prevent abuse, investigate allegations or prosecute those responsible”.[149

        Are the Assads better or worse than ISIS? I’d probably choose the Assads on the theory that they at least kept the Islamists under control. But what a lousy choice.

        • Karen says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 8:12 pm

          My point was that it’s quite easy to find specific allegations. I typed in ‘Assad war crimes’ in my search engine and Wikipedia was at the top of a long list.

          People who do research will find that Wikipedia is credible in some areas and not so credible in others. The researcher needs to balance this reference against others of known credibility. The material’s editor makes a difference.

          A worthwhile volunteer project is to take the training and become a Wikipedia editor and help raise the quality of the material.

          Or you can sit around and call people names.

        • mousey says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 9:31 pm

          well, you read this then you read that, and they say opposite things. I try to find primary sources as much as possible. I used to like wikipedia, but not so much anymore. And the UN, well i gotta agree with joan on them. Where you get your information is all-important.

          If migrants start…when migrants start attacking say germans in germany, and killing them, and taking over whole cities, is the german gov’t evil if they fight back?

        • Karen says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 10:00 pm

          No, they have a right to quell violence, and keep social order.

          I just find it difficult to choose my poison in this case!

        • Skeeter says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 6:33 am

          Yeah, wikipedia is better than those who haven’t been over there, don’t know what they are talking about, that there is a Syrian opposition or else there would be no negotiations going on, some that have taken place in Russia even. The yahoos lump all against the State Sponsor of Terrorism, Syria in one group. Probably for the benefit of the russian pansy government which does nothing in Syria and like Assad, are ISIS’s bros more than SDF and others.

  11. mousey says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 4:04 pm

    i wonder if they’ll try to kick u.s., nikki haley, off the un security counsel?

  12. CelticGod says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 4:45 pm

    Trump is a weak president.

    -Muslim ban was not succesful

    -Obamacare removal was not successful

    -He and his adminstration are already damaged by the possibility that there have been some help from Putin during election

    And now that attack here…

    Trump is not only a weak president but he is also totally clueless and unpredictable in his actions.

    Not only that, but the thing is he is damaging the reputation of every single honest and proud real conservative worldwide.

    When Trump is gone, leftists will have an easy play to get total domination. What a shame…..

    • DFD says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 2:53 am

      Celtic God: “….When Trump is gone, leftists will have an easy play to get total domination. What a shame…..”

      That is exactly THE problem. As far as Soros and the Frankfurters are concerned, plus a few others, he is the most useful of all useful idiots.

      • DFD says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 2:55 am

        PS in case you wonder why I mentioned Soros and Trump in one breath, go to https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/short-sighted-trump-hits-assad-airbase-in-response-to-chemical-weapons-attack/comment-page-1#comment-1647641

        for the details. Mousy, too will find this interesting, if not explanatory.

        • mousey says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 2:48 pm

          yes, thank you dfd

  13. TJ says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 4:59 pm

    The best news I can see anywhere is found watching the scripture in psalm 110 get fulfilled.There it says, “The Lord says to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” This scripture has authority when you notice how bad the enemies of Jesus are. The jihadists attack people who refuse to throw out all His quotes. Some of the Jews who attack christians throw out the words of Israel in a messianic prophecy in Genesis 49 which shows the messiah faces false persecution, which means He would have had to already been here. Atheists attack the bible for going to war against those who murder babies and walk on by. Rotten acts like this only serve to fulfill the script in the bible and make Jesus a legit winner over these pervs.

  14. putridislam says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 5:19 pm

    Trump had to send a strong message to these commie countries. This was done as he sat for dinner with the Chinese pres. Doing nothing was not an option. Obama had emboldened them by doing nothing. Everyone here is jumping to conclusions when they don’t have the entire story.

    • common sense says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 5:59 pm

      Yup. No mention here of who actually killed those 11 kids and 47 others so viciously. Sarin gas is very painful for the survivors as well. We gotta stay together.

      • Peggy says

        Apr 10, 2017 at 12:43 am

        If it was Sarin gas at all. There is some doubt.

        • Peggy says

          Apr 10, 2017 at 8:22 am

          Joan C. says

          April 10, 2017 at 5:14 am

          And even if it was sarin gas, there’s still a major question, on whether Assad was involved in doing it, which there’s no evidence that he did, and besides, it wouldn’t make sense for him to do that….
          ————————————–
          Exactly.

  15. common sense says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 5:33 pm

    So ISIS and Al-Qaeda will defeat Syria now with Trump acting as the air force for ISIS when the article states “The group also worked with ISIS until 2014, is sympathetic with Al-Qaeda”. Although ‘Ahrar al-Sham’ is reportedly shariah law rebel force, that does not actually make them ISIS or Al- Qaeda. Mention of those two groups is to scare people into hating Trump.

    This brief article also reports 26 airbases; the US will have to take all those out as well, kill Assad and destroy his standing army. Thin.

    AND

    The US would ACTUALLY HAVE TO USE AIRPLANES to be the “”airforce for ISIS”! The tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from the USS Porter, semantics maybe but an important one since we are as of right now involved in no other way.

    If we are going to fix this mess WE have to do it. This game playing is going nowhere but dividing us and costing more money. Lets go big and come home.

    • common sense says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 5:55 pm

      We will just HAND SYRIA TO ISIS AND AL-QAEDA after becoming THE “AIR FORCE FOR ISIS” and taking out the Assad regime? Really? Please enlighten me.
      So Trump is as stupid as Bush and Obama who both basically created Al-Qaeda and then ISIS respectively, ok.

      • Skeeter says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 6:30 am

        Oh yeah, thanks, maybe I can read trash like this in RT.

        No criticism for Assad, murderer of American soldiers, one can tell jokers like you have never been to Iraq.

        ASSad is a buyer of ISIS oil, ASSad was fine with Jihadists when they were attacking US and Coalition forces in Iraq.

        What a bunch of trash.

        • Angemon says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 8:11 am

          And he is directly responsible for strengthening ISIS, in a gambit to force the hand of the international community and hold to power.

        • Peggy says

          Apr 10, 2017 at 12:45 am

          And all this proves that it was Assad who gassed the people? If you are ready to believe so quickly without any proof then you just might also buy a swamp before it is drained.

  16. JOHNNYG says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Syrian_Civil_War_barrel_bomb_attacks

  17. Voytek Gagalka says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 5:55 pm

    From the (apparently broken now) “promise” to crash ISIS “very quickly” to cheers from that same ISIS obtained after fulfilling their errand. Congratulations to you, Mr. President for that quick achievement! Who could even expect this turn of events just mere few months ago? I see fingers of McCain and McMaster (and whoever other “Mac” in there hiding in the bunker) in all of that devilishly accomplished plan!

    • Karen says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 8:25 pm

      Interesting point. McCain may be involved; he was the one who got duped by the so-called “freedom fighters”.

  18. peanut says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 5:58 pm

    how do we know they nerve gas attacks weren’t staged?

    we’ve already seen that the muslims will stage attacks like bombings with makeup and actors to manipulate westerners into sending money, how exactly can we be sure this too wasn’t staged? wtf was kushner arranging over there?

    since hiliary immediatelysupported the US bombing, i can’t help but wonder if all is as they claim…

  19. overman says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 6:04 pm

    Paul Joseph Watson is in full agreement with Robert on this issue. IMO Trump seems to have been misled on this one.

    • common sense says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 6:55 pm

      Parts of this argument though a good one can be shredded. The CFR and MCMaster are a problem. Trump needs to kick the field goal on 4th down and walk off. No nation building and trying to control Islamic jihadism. Bad idea of W and Barry.

    • Skeeter says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 7:25 pm

      Paul Whatever his name Watson has said some pretty stupid things, he is saying how fishy it is about how this happened after Trump said we would leave Assad alone but Marco Rubio was blaming the admin for even saying this. Am I going to take Rubio’s word or that of some obscure internet author?

      • overman says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 7:54 pm

        @Skeeter – Paul Watson is not ‘some obscure internet author’, he’s Alex Jone’s right-hand man.

      • mousey says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 9:50 pm

        “destablilizing secular regimes in the middle east, whatever the reason has always proven disastrous–iraq. libya….” that doesn’t sound stupid to me. I hadn’t seen the video of tillerson saying regime change steps were underway. I also did not know about the chrisitian church. I found this video spot on and informative.

  20. Ann says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 6:07 pm

    I support what Trump did. Assad killed many of his own people, civilians, many women and children, with the sarin, launched from the air field attacked. There’s no doubt that Assad was responsible. This puts him on warning that he’d better clean up his act, that no more atrocities will be tolerated. Both Assad and the rebels are bad guys. Who cares if the rebels are glad that we chastised Assad? We’re supposed to support him no matter what he does because that’s what the Iranians and the Russians do? Because the enemy of our enemy has to be our friend? Says who?

  21. Goddess says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 6:46 pm

    They’ll love it even better when my man bombs their inbred, diseased asses back to the stone age. As for you lily-livered bastards, you were never with us to begin with. I put him in office because I trust his judgement. If you don’t, you can go to HELL.

  22. common sense says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 6:48 pm

    Here I’ll even back many of yours and Robert Spencer’s play here.

    https://youtu.be/EXuV64hp4dk

    You can rip parts of this argument to shreds. I agree that the CFR is surrounding Trump and that he needs to stop here, no nation building. That base was supposedly protecting a close by Christian majority city from jihadists.

  23. SAKOVKT says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/04/unpacking_the_latest_chemical_attack_in_syria.html

  24. Skeeter says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    We should not forget, Trump just met with the King of Jordan, he definitely got some first hand accounts of what is going on over there. Just like if you listen to people from Lebanon. It’s a bit different than the Anti-Globalist brigade telling us all what is going down.

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 11:35 pm

      You can’t mean that!!!!!!

      You’re saying that there are some people here who MIGHT not have access to all the information that Trump has?

      Imagine that! LOL!

  25. SAKOVKT says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 9:49 pm

    Let’s not forget that the entire world is a Mess that Obama left.

    If Assad, Iran and Russia win–we lose.

    If the rebels win–we lose (and I don’t care what Rex Tillerson says about the rebels-just propaganda)

    If all you can get out of it is posture, then posture.

    Posture is a lot of it and Trump’s posturing has brought lots of plusses at home and abroad.

    Of course, anything John McCain and Chuck Schumer approve of is suspect.

    Still, even a bad apple has a seed.

    McCain and Schumer are just the rot.

    Assad had no reason to use sarin, much less chlorine: not from jets.

    Kahn Sheikoun is a military installation. You can tell from the photos, open source.

    Any children there are on the rebels, probably deliberately.

    Everything, so far, indicates only that Syrian jets dropped some kind of bomb on the site.

    Whether chlorine or sarin came from aerial bombs or damaged workshops on site is unknown.

    Syrians attacked the site ostensibly to destroy evidence, but they would also have followed up an air strike with ground attacks, anyway. Otherwise, why launch an air strike? They aren’t as dumb as we are.
    They’re really trying to win.

    Nicky Haley left Russia a way out. Is Russia complicit, dumb or duped by Assad?

    It’s an attempt to drive a wedge between Russia and Assad while placating the “Putin Conspiracy Theory” Democrats.

    Tillerson has backpedaled a bit. No, this is no change from the low priority Assad. We just bombed him.

    Posturing!

    Posturing can do a lot. It cut down illegal border crossings without a wall. It put North Korea and China on notice. Putin’s fly over days are probably over and Iran isn’t going to capture any more U.S. ships.

    All to the good.

    But the Jihadis are happy and that’s bad.

    There was no win-win path left in this by Obama.

    Something had to give.

    Hopefully, the Jihadis’ number is coming up, just like the rest, one step at a time.

    I hope!

    Because that’s what I voted for and if this turns into just another bamboozle, then I really hope that Putin wins.

  26. Eric Jones says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    Trump is was wrong to do this missle strike. The missle strike helps ISIS whom Trump has vowed to destroy. Trump is receiving bad advice from Obama appointees who are still on the ground in Syria. The gas came from Turkey. ISIS did the gas attack. Trump fell right into it. ISIS did the same thing three years ago. At that time Trump advised not to fall for the false flag.

    The only message Trump sent was that he could be stampeded into things by neocons and that he really does not know that people in his admin. are working against his purposes. When third party evidence reveals that Assad is innocent what will Trump say before the whole world? Oops? He did not even waite to show his evidence justifying the missle strike.

    Trump had better get control of his admin.and his own decision making process. This does not look good.

    Eric

    • Skeeter says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 6:26 am

      Again, thanks for the Russian/Iranian line, when there are peace-talks, I guess it is only ISIS and Al Qaeda at the negotiations; I never knew that before. We are all such experts now.

  27. Jeanette says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 11:56 pm

    It’s possible that the jihadis don’t know everything, just as leftist women in western civilization cheer the jihadis, apparently too ignorant to realize what will happen to them if the jihadis get what they want.

    I doubt if any of us JW commenters know everything that Trump knows.

    • peter says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 9:04 am

      Yeah they said the same thing when W Bush invaded Iraq. So much for that thinking, the CIA and US intelligence agencies have a long history of incompetence and miscalculation. They are also corrupt and in bed with defense companies and oil.

      So don’t go by their BS, remember weapons of mass destruction?, they also advised H Bush that Saddam would not invade Kuwait, they advised Carter that there would be no revolution in 79 etc etc.

      Now what does ASSAD get out of a small scale chemical attack, when the negative strategic consequences greatly outweigh any small tactical gain? The Neocons of the military industrial complex (MC CAIN for instance) have been inching to neutralize Russia and Assad.

      Assad has been in power for 30 years or so, you only stay in power that long if you are a SMART operator. No there is some BS manipulation going on here.

      And remember these Neocons/globalists are not even good at the game, Libya, Iraq and Syria have been disasters at the highest order.

  28. Transmaster says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 3:10 am

    It is the Daesh, not ISIS. Daesh is the a very insulting name which is what they are called in the region. The Daesh is not long for this world their last strong holds are being destroyed in Iraq. As for the chemical attack the Israelis monitor Syrian Air force radio traffic so they would have know who and where the aircraft came from. Trump has a message to send to more them one party in the region, a new President was in town and was not going to piss a line in the sand and forget it. It made it clear to Assad that chemical attacks will not be tolerated. Also this put out a cigarette in Putin’s eye. Putin was able to blow off Obama, Putin was called on his so called agreement made in 2013 to get rid of Assad’s chemical munitions stores, he didn’t do it. This sent a message to Iran, and their nuclear partner North Korea that there is a President who means business. This bolsters his ties with the Kurd’s. Donald Trump knew what he was doing remember who the Secretary of Defense is.James Mattis here is an experienced combat Marine, NATO supreme commander. and Commander United States Central Command. Who area of responsibility is the middle east. James Mattis has killed Muslim’s with his own hands. I am very happy with Trump actions in this case.

  29. peter says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 4:09 am

    100 million dollars expended to support ISIS by Trump government!

  30. God's Warrior says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 4:24 am

    I am sure Assad got the message: “Chemical weapons will not be tolerated.”

    Since the UN does nothing to uphold world values, America stood up and shut them down.

    It seemed logical to me when I heard. For a few seconds I wondered about the response, but was too tired and went back to sleep. Now, that Russia has not retaliated it seems a fitting response by the world.

    One assumes there was absolutely no doubt about the origin of this weapon of mass destruction. Surely we will never make that mistake again!

  31. Skeeter says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 6:21 am

    Who cheered this bombing? EU, NATO, 66% of those taking the Drudge Report survey, Oliver North’s latest editorial. Perhaps one should also mention a great part of the world also cheered this bombing of the State Sponsor of Terrorism, Syria. It seems Iran is called the biggest sponsor of state terrorism in the world; Assad is just a front for Iran so some of these reactions are baffling.

  32. TheBuffster says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 6:34 am

    So how do these ISIS revellers know that they aren’t next?

    • DFD says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 3:12 pm

      Because ISIS, Al Nusrah, Al Qa-idah etc. are bankrolled by the gulf states – and so is Erdogan, to some extent. They have several jobs, one is to secure the territory for the Sunnis, for seculars like Assad there is no room. That means Whabbism/Salfism, spot the difference between Saudi and ISIS. That’s right, none! Except that the moderate trustworthy Saudis have oil – sorry, I meant of course are our allies…

      Apart from that there is that little matter of the pipeline from Qatar and Saudi to the med. Well, Iraq wont object anymore, perhaps those terrorists whom came from Mars. They must be, there were staggering amounts of terrorism going on when Saddam was in power, he just managed to keep it secret.

      And now, Syria! That bloody Assad, he wanted that Syria will be paid for it, the audacity. And worse, the terminal, on Syrian territory, would be governed by Syria! Ridiculous! Just because it is on Syrian soil… But hey, no problem, when he said no way, guess what: The Arab Spring broke out, with all those protesters and ‘activists’.

      And he still believes that Syrian territory is under the Syrian government, I mean how stupid can get? What the hell does he think when there is a pipeline to go through his country?

      Obviously he has to learn the hard way. Bring on some more babies….

      And those stupid Christians, Yazidis and Shias think they are safe in Damascus. Hah, not were something as irrelevant as a pipeline is concerned. They too have to learn.

  33. Infidel lives matter says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 6:56 am

    Westerners are slaughtered by jihadis almost every day and that’s absolutely fine by hypocritical Western leaders. They even want more of it so they import more Muslims to kill their own people (not Trump). The Islamic State has committed genocide and killed countless people all over the world, but this chemical attack by unknown perpetrators that only killed around 70 people, less that the Nice attack, leaves Western leaders and the MSM morally outraged and is such an affront to humanity that Trump had to go and attack a sovereign nation? Give me a break. And what’s this stuff about sending a message to Putin? Wasn’t Trump supposed to work with Putin to wipe out the Islamic State? This is a 180 from the campaign promises.

  34. duh swami says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 7:09 am

    I’s interesting in a dark way that killing a hundred thousand people with bombs and bullets is OK but a few hundred by gas is a war crime…
    I don’t5 agree with everything Trump does, but people here with your personal insults re pathetic…

  35. Skeeter says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 7:19 am

    Assad helped build up ISIS; then they turned against him.

    https://historyxisis.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/did-assad-really-help-build-isis-an-examination-of-the-evidence/

  36. Terry Gain says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 8:55 am

    I greatly admire Robert Spencer, whom I regard as America’s greatest defender against the threat which is Islam. But I disagree with his criticism of Trump for responding quickly, precisely and effectively to Assad’s use of chemical weapons upon his own people.

    Trump would deserve being accused of acting as ISIS Air Force only if he significantly damaged Assad’s ability to fight ISIS. And that he has not done. He has taken out one airfield.

    What Trump has done is show the Arab world that he is the strong horse. He is a man of moral authority who will not stand by and do nothing while civilian populations are gassed.

    This might give Trump, or Abu Ivanka, as he is now being hailed, the ability to raise an Arab Army to take out ISIS.

    • DFD says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 3:25 pm

      You are contradicting yourself. “gassing his own people…” The very people who were waiting for him to be freed from ISIS, just as he has done in Aleppo. Right, so he was gassing his own people with a gas that’s, like all gases, impossible to control and could have just as well drifted onto his troops nearby, ready to take the ISIS positions Oh Brother!!!!!

      “…the ability to raise an Arab Army to take out ISIS…” Like bloody hell! The Saudis, Emirates, Qatar etc., who are financing Al-Nusrah, Al Qa-idah, ISIS and, and… An Arab army to take out their protegees and Mercenaries, I’ve got to say, that bit was priceless, stunning.

  37. Jeanette says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 9:17 am

    Syrian Thanks Our President, Says Assad Has Murdered Thousands

    https://newswithviews.com/syrian-thanks-our-president-says-assad-has-murdered-thousands/

  38. 762x51FMJ says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    Assad gassed civilians in 2013 in operation OBAMA/HILLARY RED LINE.
    Obama then begged Russia to get the gas out of Syria and Hillary even gave them a reset button to press ..
    Now Bashar Assad pulled operation TRUMP RED LINE..
    and the response is obviously different.

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