Thomas Lifson: A ‘Goldilocks’ air strike on Syria . . . "But so far, the strike on three targets in Syria appears to have been not too much, not too little, but just right to deliver the necessary message. Here is the official Pentagon map of the targets:" (Click to enlarge)
Russia claims Syria air defences shot down 71 of 103 missile "The Russian military has claimed that the Syrian air defences, whose most modern weapon is a three-decades-old Russian-supplied anti-aircraft system, shot down 71 of 103 missiles fired by the US and its allies, the UK and France.
Mattis: Syria Strikes a ‘One-Time Shot,’ Further Operations Will Depend on Assad . . . "While last year’s strikes were done unilaterally, and hit one target — a Syrian regime airfield that housed about 17 percent of its air force – Dunford said Friday’s strikes were conducted with two allies on multiple sites and would “result in a long-term degradation of Syria’s capability to develop chemical weapons.”
The Syrian War Is Actually Many Wars . . . "The United States is in Syria mainly because of isis. At a recent event in Washington, the U.S. envoy to the anti-isis coalition Brett McGurk spelled this out: “We are in Syria to fight isis. That is our mission and our mission isn’t over, and we’re going to complete that mission.” More recently, Secretary of Defense James Mattis told Congress that the United States was not there to take sides in the broader civil war." . . .
Syria's Assad vows to 'crush terrorism' after Western attack Generally Assad and Putin refer to the anti-Assad forces as terrorists. Meaning those gassed by Assad. TD
How Will Moscow Respond to the Syria Strikes?
For now, the ball is in Moscow's court--and we will see what its response looks like.
Syrian air strikes LIVE: US, UK and France hit Assad's chemical weapons
This article repeats the claim that most missles were shot down.
"Syrian state TV has broadcast these images which it claims proves it shot down some missiles heading for targets in the country yesterday."
Live from Damascus: Syrian TV covers the air raids
Pretty much the same opinion of President Trump as CNN and MSNBC.
. . . "Also at the channel’s website were some new political cartoons and after a search I discovered a whole page of them. The captions for each one, in Arabic, are on the side of the cartoons and can be translated online.
. . . "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. Not only can terrorists gain access by capturing them in Syria, chlorine is not that hard to fabricate. A poison gas attack on Israel or the United States is not out of the question.
"But there are other messages being delivered.
"The second one is to Russia:" . . .
. . . "The third message is to Kim Jong-un and the mullahs of Tehran:" . . .Russia claims Syria air defences shot down 71 of 103 missile "The Russian military has claimed that the Syrian air defences, whose most modern weapon is a three-decades-old Russian-supplied anti-aircraft system, shot down 71 of 103 missiles fired by the US and its allies, the UK and France.
"As further details began to emerge about the sites targeted by the US-led strikes, Col Gen Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military said the strikes had not caused any casualties and that Syrian military facilities suffered only minor damage
"Although it was not possible to verify the claims, the most up-to-date system that Moscow has supplied to the Syrian regime is the short range Pantsir S-1, which has an anti-missile capability." . . .
“ 'Important infrastructure was destroyed. They will lose years of research and development data, specialized equipment, and expensive chemical weapons precursors,” he said." . . .
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Syria's Assad vows to 'crush terrorism' after Western attack Generally Assad and Putin refer to the anti-Assad forces as terrorists. Meaning those gassed by Assad. TD
How Will Moscow Respond to the Syria Strikes?
For now, the ball is in Moscow's court--and we will see what its response looks like.
Syrian air strikes LIVE: US, UK and France hit Assad's chemical weapons
This article repeats the claim that most missles were shot down.
"Syrian state TV has broadcast these images which it claims proves it shot down some missiles heading for targets in the country yesterday."
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| In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the damage of the Syrian Scientific Research Center which was attacked by U.S., British and French military strikes to punish President Bashar Assad for suspected chemical attack against civilians |
Pretty much the same opinion of President Trump as CNN and MSNBC.
. . . "Also at the channel’s website were some new political cartoons and after a search I discovered a whole page of them. The captions for each one, in Arabic, are on the side of the cartoons and can be translated online.
The cartoon at the top, and probably the most memorable one, was a caricature of President Donald Trump. The caption via Google’s translation service translates as “Terrorism ... To the dustbin of history.” “Brush artist Nidal_Khalil.' ”
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"The cartoons, which largely transcend language barriers, offer direct and telling insights into the official propaganda being issued in a hot spot on the other side of the world."
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