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Is Trump Going Neocon in Syria? - Pat Buchanan
« on: September 12, 2018, 12:21:08 am »
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Is Trump Going Neocon in Syria?
Monday - September 10, 2018

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is President Donald Trump about to intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war? For that is what he and his advisers seem to be signaling.

Last week, Trump said of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s campaign to recapture the last stronghold of the rebellion, Idlib province: “If it’s a slaughter, the world is going to get very, very angry. And the United States is going to get very angry, too.”

In a front-page story Monday, “Assad is Planning Chlorine Attack, U.S. Says,” The Wall Street Journal reports that, during a recent meeting, “President Trump threatened to conduct a massive attack against Mr. Assad if he carries out a massacre in Idlib.”

Read more at: http://buchanan.org/blog/is-trump-going-neocon-in-syria-130055

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Re: Is Trump Going Neocon in Syria?
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2018, 12:31:16 am »
Wasn't there a prior gas attack that was blamed on Assad, but was actually "...somebody else"? :shrug:
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Re: Is Trump Going Neocon in Syria? - Pat Buchanan
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2018, 02:49:55 am »
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Wasn't there a prior gas attack that was blamed on Assad, but was actually "...somebody else"? :shrug:

I don't think the gas attack that was during the Obama administration was sufficiently proven to have been done by anyone in particular.