Tom Rogan: How and why Trump and Macron will strike Assad

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How and why Trump and Macron will strike Assad
by Tom Rogan  | April 09, 2018 04:45 PM

President Trump and his French counterpart-slash-friend Emmanuel Macron pledged a joint response to Bashar Assad's chemical weapons attack on Saturday, which targeted civilians in Douma, Syria.

That means it is highly likely that the U.S. and France will conduct reprisal military strikes this week, perhaps with the support of British Prime Minister Theresa May. As Stephen Bush notes at the New Statesman, May has the votes to win parliamentary support for strikes even if opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn's bloc votes against action.

The focus of the strikes will likely be on degrading Assad's air and chemical weapons forces. The Syrian Air Force has numerous bases near Douma that might be targeted, but other chemical weapons units and depots are located across the country. The operative question is what strategic effect Trump and Macron will seek. While the action will have to be more functionally effective than the March 2017 U.S. strikes on a Syrian air base, the two leaders may want to balance the strikes against the fact that they will aggravate Russia.

Read more at: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/how-and-why-trump-and-macron-will-strike-assad

Rogan was just on fox; discussing this, great show with Bill Emmer.

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And Tucker's show is very good exploring this topic. Pros and Cons, it's really difficult to decide.  At the same time, OANN has been running their "white helmets" program, well, one would have to watch it.   Tucker also had "Theo Padnos" on the show, this guy was held by Al Nusra (Al Qaeda) for a time before he escaped or was handed over... he'd say Al Nusra would do anything and no one can go into these areas to decide what happened because they will disappear.

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Tucker also mentioned Yemen, they've had some famine there per reports in the past because of the war. We don't hear much about the suffering of children in that situation.  And it is all sad.

Saudi-led airstrikes kill 17 in Yemen’s center and south
The three-year stalemated war has damaged Yemen’s infrastructure, crippled its health system and pushed the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/saudi-led-airstrike-kills-15-in-yemen/2018/04/09/7679de7e-3bf1-11e8-955b-7d2e19b79966_story.html?utm_term=.283169b2a699

And Howard Dean, maybe even Juan Williams are sounding like hawks, Dean sure is. He's ready to go right in.