What now? Tweety's "Prime Directive" was America First and America was NOT directly attacked. Saying the Syrian gassing was a threat to America's National Security is/was/always will be Bull Shit. There was NO direct attack on our people or soil. This is not about American's National Security.
Tweety has got a Tar Baby now, and we do not forgive his Russian contacts and use of Russia to get elected.
"U.S.-Led Force Reduces Attacks on ISIS in Syria After Airstrike"
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITTAPRIL 8, 2017
"WASHINGTON — The American-led task force that is battling the Islamic State has sharply reduced airstrikes against the militants in Syria as commanders assess whether Syrian government forces or their Russian allies plan to respond to the United States’ cruise missile strike on a Syrian airfield this past week, American officials said.
The precautionary move, revealed in statistics made public by the command on Saturday, was taken as Russian officials have threatened to suspend the communication line the American and Russian militaries use to notify each other about air operations in Syria."
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"William McCants, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of “The ISIS Apocalypse,” offered a similar assessment.
If the strikes are limited to what took place this past week, “then they don’t change much,” Mr. McCants said. “They won’t help jihadists propagandize against the U.S., because the missiles targeted the hated Assad regime. Russia wasn’t doing much against ISIS, so Russian anger at the strikes won’t affect the coalition effort against the group.”
But Mr. McCants added: “If the United States continues to degrade Assad’s air force, it will be a boon to all the rebel groups, including the non-ISIS jihadists who have been targeted by the regime. They will begin to recapture some of the territory they have lost.”"
"On Syria, Trump Administration At Last Finds Its Voice. Will Words Translate Into Action?"
April 06, 2017
By Susan E. Reed
http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/04/06/syria-chemical-attack-donald-trump-susan-e-reed
But where will being the world's police lead?
"The conventional thinking about chemical warfare is that it must be denounced as soon as possible so leaders don’t think they can get away with it. Chemical weapons are pernicious, sometimes silent killers. With some agents, such as Sarin, you can’t tell you’ve been attacked until it surrounds you, you begin choking and lose control of your bodily functions. The U.S. military issues protective suits, but they can be bulky and extremely uncomfortable in a warm climate.
While it was moving to see Trump express deep sympathy for the murder of Muslim children, his administration became galvanized for mainly one reason: to warn the Syrians and Russians to stand by their military obligations when there are now more Americans in Syria. He is beginning to understand the dangerous complexity of that war as he questions whom he can trust."
