On a scale of 1-10 the effectiveness of the STRIKE is a 1..good old demented Trump...

[jodymarie aimee]

4AM here and Kal Perry on MSNBC says on a scale of 1-10 the effectiveness of the STRIKE is a 1. Trump and Bolton going rogue and distracting. Syrians in street celebrating. DEMs pissed he did not go to congress. KILL KILL KILL as good of a distraction as there is...

[akbacchus_BC]

1. The strike is Syria could be a distraction for Mr. Mueller's investigation.

Republicans know how to distract. I wish Dems could be more foreceful!

[dchill]

2. I knew Trump wouldn't actually do anything to hurt Putin.

Or piss him off. I imagine they talked it over pretty thoroughly. They had plenty of time.

[BritVic]

4. Agree. A completely coordinated piece of theatre.

[dchill]

5. It's galling to see the "liberal" media playing their role.

[oberliner]

3. What would a 10 have looked like?

[mr_lebowski]

10. To start, lot's of screaming brown people on fire, bleeding from multiple orifices, obviously ...

I mean, really, what kind of question IS THIS?

Where is your Patriotism, Ober?

You either have the stomach to Slaughter People to Defend Your Country, or you don't, you know?

[Heartstrings]

14. Complete, massive carnage....

Personally, I'm still reeling from the footage of those dying children in Aleppo last year.....and now more to come....

[oberliner]

15. Every outcome here is a bad one

From taking no action to taking strong action and everything in between.

[HopeAgain]

18. A dead Assad

[DeminPennswoods]

6. This is the standard military response

to one of these incidents. Lob some missiles and keep aircraft high enough to avoid anti-aircraft fire and leave. Maybe it's a slight step up from bombing an empty airfield, but that's about it.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. Roger Waters sums it up quite eloquently...

Than this

[left-of-center2012]

7. A retired general on ABC Friday night said ...

This will do nothing to stop the chemical attacks,
and there will be more chemical attacks.

[JI7]

9. enacting sanctions on russia would probably do more to stop chemical attacks in syria

[JI7]

8. i'm guessing more effectiveness would require a ground war

[blueinredohio]

11. With Bolton in now there will be more skipping over congress

[Heartstrings]

12. And it took him what, a week? Nt

[Cosmocat]

13. Lets be clear about one thing

Two weeks ago, the idiot went public saying that he was going to pull troops out of Syria.

Had a Democratic president done that, and Syria utilize the gas attacks like they did, Republicans and the media would have absolutely eviscerated that President.

[ashredux]

16. All show....

The strikes] are unlikely to alter the overall trajectory of the Syrian civil war and will not prevent Assad from continuing to slaughter his rebelling population.


Jennifer Cafarella, Institute for the Study of War

[Farmer-Rick]

19. Dropping bombs gives you creds don't you know?

You know, like Trump and May are big and tough now. We have to vote them in again, no matter how corrupt they might be, cause they are going to start a war for us.

Nothing like badly reading from an obviously jittery prompter to then dropping bombs on abused citizenry to stop a a tyrant from dropping other kinds of bombs on said citizenry. Yeah that's the ticket to reelection and ending the Russian investigation.

[YOHABLO]

20. We don't know for sure if a chemical attack actually occurred.

Where is the evidence? Just got through reading: "How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the U.S. to War" By Max Blumenthal. It's too long to copy and paste but take a look if you want.

[lark]

21. Yeah, this wasn't a military strike, he only hit 3 of 12 chemical production plants.

It was a Michael Cohen/Mueller/Stormy Daniels strike. If he plans on firing Rosenstein, it will be Monday. Of course, I'd bet he's playing golf this weekend, as always, so it will happen Monday if it's going to happen.