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Topic	Trump's missile strike in Syria was a diversionary tactic
streamofthesky 04/09/17 9:00:43 PM #21:	I'm hoping war w/ Syria will be a distraction for Trump from the destruction of our environment, scientific research, and basic human rights domestically, if anything... SkynyrdRocker posted... Erik_P posted... SkynyrdRocker posted... What was Obama's missile strike in Syria in 2013? http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/obama-syria-airstrikes-trump/ So Trump did what Obama should have done. What's the point of drawing a line in the sand if you just go "oh darn it" when they cross it? The point was having a reason to go to war (in some form...bombing the shit out of a country is war, even if we put no boots on the ground and 99% of U.S. citizens go about their lives like nothing's different). So he asked Congress to sanction military action, as the constitution requires. And they chickened out of being personally accountable for a possible war. Obama couldn't win. If he follows the constitution, he's weak. If he had made strikes against Assad w/o Congressional approval, they'd have called him a dictator. No matter what he does, people like you would shout that he's wrong. <cite>streamofthesky posted [p:876879609] in Trump's mi... [t:75218648]...</cite> <quote>I'm hoping war w/ Syria will be a distraction for Trump from the destruction of our environment, scientific research, and basic human rights domestically, if anything... <cite>SkynyrdRocker posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Erik_P posted...</cite> <quote><cite>SkynyrdRocker posted...</cite> <quote>What was Obama's missile strike in Syria in 2013?</quote> http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/obama-syria-airstrikes-trump/</quote> So Trump did what Obama should have done. What's the point of drawing a line in the sand if you just go "oh darn it" when they cross it?</quote> The point was having a reason to go to war (in some form...bombing the shit out of a country is war, even if we put no boots on the ground and 99% of U.S. citizens go about their lives like nothing's different). So he asked Congress to sanction military action, as the constitution requires. And they chickened out of being personally accountable for a possible war. Obama couldn't win. If he follows the constitution, he's weak. If he had made strikes against Assad w/o Congressional approval, they'd have called him a dictator. No matter what he does, people like you would shout that he's wrong.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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