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helIy posted...

Jarsky2 posted...

ESMWjot posted...

We dropped over 12k missiles on Syria last year.

This is nothing new, so idk why people are so scared now.

The missiles we dropped before weren't 57 motherfucking tomahawks at once, aimed at a military instilation of a government we weren't even (technically) at war with. The missile strikes last year were targeted primarily at ISIS.

Furthermore, he did it without congressional approval, and he announced it after he did it. These are things a dictator does.

them being tomahawks doesn't really matter. they all do the same thing: indiscriminately explode.

them being targeted primarily at isis doesn't mean all were, and they were still shot at syria.

furthermore, obama did them without congressional approval as well. don't cherry pick, call obama a dictator too.

I don;t think you have a great grasp on modern weapons.

The fact that they were tomohawks does matter. Certain types of missiles are, in fact, easier to direct where they will wind up exploding, as well as containing the destruction to what you want exploded. Tomahawks are for when you don;t care what blows up, you just want to blow shit up. Plus, while it is not as important, Tomohawks are LUDICROUSLY expensive. That's why we don't use them very often.

You're right, they weren't all shot at ISIS, but they were all shot at terrorist cells. We have never attacked the Syrian government directly before now.

Actually, yes, he did, by precedent. Congress had already approved acts of aggression against the terrorist organizations targetted. They have never approved attacks on the Syrian government because attacking Assad directly is just asking for WWIII.