Take That, Assad!

Oy!  Again with the missiles.  Again with the "look at me! Ain't I tough showing dictators how strong I am"

I'm sick of it. Syria isn't a real country anymore, folks.  It hasn't been for several years.  The forces of hereditary dictator Bashar al-Assad can't control large swaths of it. In the "rebel" areas, you can't tell the players without a scorecard... Isis, Al-Qaeda, Iran, and assorted other groups. 

There are a lot of questions to be asked here, the most important which is this: exactly who were we supposed to be helping with a missile strike that cost enough to send 7,628 young Americans to university?  Were we helping the rebels?  That would appear to make sense, right? since they oppose Assad and so do we.  It makes perfect sense until we realize that the groups that oppose Assad also hate the United States.

Were we protecting the innocent?  It hardly seems likely, since the United States, in the person of our Russian stooge in Chief, has blocked civilians fleeing the war in Syria from entering the United States.  Further, we seem think that it is alright to allow civilians to be blown to smithereens by the hundreds with conventional high explosives, yet it is different when chemicals are used.  I don't want to be unpleasant, but except for the manner of death, using chemicals is rather inefficient.

We won't even try with the foolish suggestion that we were protecting Americans, because that is just so much steaming nonsense.

So... just to be clear: we weren't helping Assad, and we weren't helping the rebels groups, and we weren't helping innocent civilians., and we weren't protecting American lies.
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Hmm.  That only leaves Trump.  Was Trump trying to protect himself from himself ?  Was he trying to be heroic and make people forget that his administration is a shambles?  So people might forget that his son-in-law appears to be the shaper of policy in the White House?  Could it be that Comrade President Trumpsky wants everyone to forget that he and s many of his associates are under criminal investigation by the FBI?

I don't have any answers tonight, but I think that we start to get a pretty clear image from the questions alone.


Peace be with you.