U.S. attacks Syria

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BREAKING: US officials: US attacks Syrian air base with about 60 missiles after Syrian chemical weapons attack.

Specifically a Syrian air-base? or that and whatever else was anywhere near it with no regards to civilians?

I don't know what the solution is for Syria, but here is a good gauge to use to tell whether people debating current actions are debating from principle or from politics.

In 2016 alone, the last year of his presidency -- just one year -- Obama dropped more than 12,000 bombs on Syria, more than 12,000 bombs on Iraq, more than 1300 bombs on Afghanistan, almost 500 bombs on Libya, and more than 50 bombs together on Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen.

Since I've been avoiding international and Presidential news I went and played in Google.
Is this thing ever going to post or not? gotten some kind of error message a couple times. all right, try one more time.
Conflicting reports are interesting.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/ ... story.html

Except we all know that it's really more-likely like the U.S. (Shadow) Government has «planted» the Chemica-Weapons there Secretly and Covertly in order to purposely let it blow down-wind & cause cancers. Everybody should get David Morehouse's book, Psychic Warrior, and read the chapter that describes this discovery.

It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. I'm sure this will cause some tension with Russia.

I wouldn't be surprised if it ended in WW3 myself. Like this guy on the radio said, "Syria is not our problem. The media shows a bunch of pictures of the children and we're doing something about it now? This has been going on for a long time. Africa is in a big mess right now - why aren't we helping them? AND we voted for Trump not to get involved in other countries problems. And what if he starts sending troops of OUR kids over to fight this "horse s**t" who are just 18 yrs of age themselves and not much older than children. Why should our children die?" I agree with that guy who was also a Trump voter. And knowing that McCain and Lindsey Graham approve makes me disapprove more. Trump better not be their whipping boy or he'll be ousted by his voters on the next go-around.

this bombing seems mostly punitive, hopefully they don't escalate things further

there is no way Assad can be overthrow that doesn't cause more violence and more territory in the hands of Islamic extremists who have used gas many times themselves. I'd like to actually see the evidence that Assad personally called for the use of this gas which makes no sense considering the Syrian governments position in the war

Russia could have shot down the tomahawks before they hit Syria, but Putin didn't. If he had, it would have been WWIII.

I wonder if Russia will respond in a different way though. They can't be happy about Trump taking this stand.

The choice was either to do nothing: and encourage everyone (not just Assad) to start using poison gas.

Or to do something.

The something he did was a one time punch that knocked out a military asset of Assad.

What choice would any POTUS have had,but to do something like this in the given situation? So I see no reason to complain about it.

Does anyone have any thoughts about why he used cruise missiles?

In the age of predator drones and smart bombs, it seems an odd choice to use technology from the 80s. Low flying, slow moving cruise missiles.