Relax

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Trump shot his bolt with his Syrian strike. He didn't liberate the place. We will all be back to talking about election interference, a stalling economy, and Chump's incompetence in no time.

Assad is a dictator who gasses his own people. He is somebody only a Deplorable couldn't hate so Trump had to pretend he wasn't one for a day. Like the Bible says " As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness. " Trump will soon again be doing the things that have made him universally loathed and ridiculed.

[coco22]

1. Exactly,and I get so tired of..

these talking heads trying to tell the public he has learned after any speech,meeting,bill signing,cabinet pick or change,no matter the incident we are suppose to forget that he is one of the most disgusting,dispicable,POS walking the earth.

We are suppose to believe he is CHARMING which equals CONMAN to those who can see it.

[doc03]

2. So far it is working look at the lateest threads here on DU

not one post about Russiagate.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Well, pardner, we have three years and nine months to get back to it.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. That is silly on its face

DU is a place where people comment on current events.

A reasonable number of those people are also able to walk, chew gum, and think simultaneously.

A reasonable number of them, in turn, can consider and discuss the day's news while still able, will, and ready, to discuss larger issues.

[oberliner]

4. How do you think things will play out with Syria?

Do you see Assad staying in power? Any further military action from the US?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Let me answer it this way...

Socrates say you can learn by asking questions.

Assad is Putin's client. Putin is invested in Assad staying in power. It would be a massive blow to Putin's prestige to see his client toppled. Would Putin ever allow that and what steps would he take to prevent it from happening?


And that's not even getting into what a post Assad Syria would look like.

[oberliner]

8. Here is my response

If the US made the decision to topple Assad, and were committed to that goal (i.e. willing to send in ground troops), then I don't think Russia would be able to prevent that from happening. I think Putin would likely try to come up with some face saving measure and would move on to higher priorities in eastern Europe.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Even if the mission was successful and Assad was toppled...

Even if the mission was successful and Assad was toppled we would be responsible for pacifying three Middle Eastern nations: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. The American people have no stomach for that kind of stuff.

That raise an interesting point. It's easier to envision what won't work than what will.

[oberliner]

10. All the options are bad options

I think Obama said something along those lines.

[vlyons]

6. Syria, like Trump, will be more of the same.

Trump will continue to be The Fool, and Syria will continue to be dystopic. Only if some outside army goes into Syria and kills Assad and sets up a new regime will things change in Syria - and maybe not even then. No one seems to have the stomach for it. So Republicans can thump their chests and crow like banty roosters all they want, but the American people certainly do not have the stomach for a war with 100K+ combatants invade Syria.

[bigtree]

11. he 'gassed his own people'

"Prior to September the 11th, we had the comfort of realizing or looking back in history and saying that we're pretty safe here in America. Others may be threatened -- after all, he attacked two in his neighborhood, he gassed his own people -- but not us. September the 11th changed the equation, changed our thinking. It also changed our thinking when we began to realize that one of the most dangerous things that can happen in the modern era is for a deceiving dictator who has gassed his own people, who has weapons of mass destruction to team up with an organization like al Qaeda."

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BUSH
October 14, 2002