After the United States launched missile strikes on a Syrian air base on Thursday night, President Donald Trump said that the retaliation to a chemical weapons attack was in the security interest of the United States.
“It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council,” Trump said Thursday night from his Florida resort Mar-A-Lago.
The President called on other countries to “join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria, and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types.”
The U.S. ordered the strikes following a chemical weapons attack that U.S. officials believe was launched by the Syrian government.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday night that the strikes do not indicate a policy change toward Syria.
“I would not in any way attempt to extrapolate that to a change in our policy or posture relative to our military activities in Syria today. There has been no change in that status,” he said. “I think it does demonstrate that President Trump is willing to act when governments and actors cross the line and cross the line on violating commitments they’ve made and cross the line in the most heinous of ways.”
Watch Trump’s remarks via USA Today:
Another GOP president.
More death.
Mission accomplished.
No, this was done in the “vital interests” of propping up his “Administration” and his popularity ratings. Note how his enablers in Congress are in unanimous support of this clearly illegal military action. What U.S. territory was involved? How many U.S. citizens were threatened directly? One can only imagine the GOP reaction if President Obama had done the same thing. The hypocrisy is stunning, once again.
If this moron was the least bit honest, he’d say it was prompted by humanitarian interests to protect innocent civilians and this was payback…but instead he went with the old standby about this being in our “vital national security interest”, which truth be told…it really is not. Syria does not pose any vital or imminent threat to this country…and every fucking general, the entire military industrial complex, and all those bullshit pundits and journalists on TV this morning praising this one-off action ought to know this. Period.
So again…Now what?
this will not end well
And effectively ignoring that this shit has been going on for 10 years with 500,000 dead, Hospitals and schools bombed , sections of the country reduced to dust.
All this while the world, Syria’s neighbors Russia et al stood around whistling and twiddling their thumbs