dynamiteReady wrote:
Dinostar77 wrote:This should have been the response 4 years ago but Obama chickened out. Let's see what Russia do now.
Roujin wrote:According to CNN they were Tomahawks.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/tomahawk-missiles-explainer/
So they drop 59,000 lbs of payload and spent ~45m dollars on taking out a single airbase.
Seems like a big fuck off show of force to me than a measured response. Since the US knew exactly which airbase they were aiming at they could have sent a warning to Assad by taking out the runways.
Apart from ISIS. But this wasn't ISIS, but it was in Syria. Hmm... Complicated this foreign affairs stuff, who'd have thunk.poprock wrote:Well, it does directly go against Trump’s campaign promise of basically ignoring foreign matters to concentrate on American issues for Americans.
Heh, it'd be hella ironic if he binned the loons and the outcome is some pizzagate conspiracy bellend turning on him and gunning him down.Yossarian wrote:dynamiteReady wrote:
That's fantastic. Let's all take a moment to consider Breitbart falling out with Trump.
Aah.
Yossarian wrote:The video in the first Tweet in section 3 is gobsmacking.
While getting indirectly involved is what turned it into a clusterfuck.Diluted Dante wrote:Syria is a clusterfuck. It was back then too. Getting directly involved is very much a bad idea.Dinostar77 wrote:This should have been the response 4 years ago but Obama chickened out. Let's see what Russia do now.
Roujin wrote:I was actually laughing when I heard they used 60 cruise missiles for the strike. Must have been sorting their use by date I guess!
WorKid wrote:They need to break out the MOAB.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast
Yossarian wrote:According to Reuters, Assad has planes taking off from the bombed airfield. 59 Missiles and the runways are still operational? Something odd going on there.
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