CAEN, France (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, says the U.S. appreciates France’s airstrike against Islamic State militants.
Dempsey, who was traveling in France, says the French hit a target north of Mosul, Iraq. He was not more specific.
Dempsey says the strike happened while he was visiting the D-Day landing beaches and American military cemetery at Normandy with his French counterpart, Gen. Pierre de Villiers, who informed him of the attack.
Dempsey told reporters traveling with him — quote — “The French were our very first ally and they are there again for us.”
France announced that it conducted its first airstrike Friday against the militant Islamic State group, destroying a logistics depot that it controlled.
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Respect for the sovereignty of nations is the underlying legal basis of all international treaties regarding the waging of war.
Keep that in mind as you read this from WSWS:
For full article Google: “US lays new chemical weapon allegations against Syria”
If Russian, Iranian or Chinese military generals declared that a country’s borders would not restrain their military actions would TPM’ers be supportive or outraged by such proclamations?
At what point will Democrats begin their protest against these clearly illegal plans for war inside Syria?
Even the Syrian “government” wants western nations to attack ISIL in Syria. Nice try though.
Please direct me to an official statement from the Syrian government authorizing U.S. airstrikes in their country. Thanks.
From CBS News:
Nice try.
Several paragraphs down:
Continues:
Again, Syria has yet to authorize any U.S. military response in their country.
And we can continue to pretend that the CIA, special forces, mercenaries and militias funded, trained and assisted by the U.S. aren’t already operating illegally in Syria.