Anyone getting deja vu? I could've sworn this was 2013. Quick, tell me, when I say "Mitt Romney", do you think "evil and/or manipulative businessman who will not represent the common man", or "really not such a bad guy, all things considered"?
The United States set a red line and it got crossed. Takes a few years, but you can certainly trust the United States to follow through on promises. Once we've tried everything else.
We don't even know if a red line got crossed. We don't even know what happened to release the poison gas.
I'm sure we'll find out after politely asking whoever the Syrian government is to let us have access to whatever archives they might have and to the site of the incident in a decade or so when the war finally ends. I mean that worked well in so many other places, so we can hopefully look forward to a successful implementation of the "Ignore it until it goes away, mild self-admonishment later that 'maybe we could have done better'" policy that has served the US and others so well in Africa and elsewhere.
Until we know what actually happened military intervention over the issue is just insane.
Agreed. Military intervention on other grounds, of course, has been justified by quite literally everyone involved in the middle east except for the US, and it doesn't appear to have stopped them. But. of course, the addition of 50 Tomahawk missiles into the complex, multi-sided five-year conflict that has claimed the lives of what is now approaching 500,000 deaths is an unprecedented escalation that should be held to a higher standard than those interventions.
But after that The US, Russia and Syria agreed that Syria would destroy it's chemical weapons, which they actually did.
Which is why those chemical weapons were never heard from again.
Who knew geopolitics could be so simple and easy?
The site of the chemical attack is in rebel hands, so inspectors don't need permission of Assad for anything. Inspecting the site can gather crucial information about among other things the delivery method of the gas.
I am not sure this intervention will stop at just 50 tomahawk missiles. Trump is impulsive enough to escalate this further.
Chemical weapons in rebel held areas obviously remained after the Syrian regime destroyed their stockpiles. Were any previous chemical attacks attributed to Assad after that actually proven?
