Syrian Air strikes

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Kinda reads like Assad wrote the release. Not even a mention of the people harmed in the recent chemical attack, whomever the actual perpetrator was.
 
I liked this analysis of the situation, and the three messages it delivered.


The first message is that the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated. The huge “red line” blunder of Obama has been corrected again. This is more than a do-gooder concern for humanity, even though that is what is being said, for the most part. If these weapons are used and not punished, they will used again and again.

The second one is to Russia. It is obvious that the timing of the attack enabled Russia to pull its naval fleet from the Syrian port of Tartus, where Russia has its sole overseas naval base. The message was that the U.S. does not want war and will not knowingly attack Russia unless we are attacked by it. But Russian allies and puppets get no such protection.

The third message is to Kim Jong-un and the mullahs of Tehran: that vaunted Russian air defense capability you have purchased for precious hard currency isn’t going to do you any good. The B-1 bombers that carried out part of the mission were not even detected, or if they were, the attacks on them were ineffective.
 
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