This board has lost its mind. Russia is not, nor have they ever been our ally. Romney was 100% correct in his assessment during his debate with Obama.
AMERICA drew a red line in the sand in Syria. Assad crossed that line and we made good on our threat. We are supposed to stand for something in this country & without our word, we have nothing.
It's the hypocrisy that's the problem. Trump campaigned for a year and a half--stating we are not going to get into Syria's civil war. We would not remove Assad because that would create another vacumn.
He continually attacked Hillary Clinton for stating she was going to get tough with Assad. He criticised her for the no fly zone in Syria that she was insisting on.
The irony is, if she were in office instead of the Ass Clown--there would have been a no fly zone and this chemical attack would have never happened.
Trump even at one point stated that "Assad was bad, but not that bad." Trump continually praised Vladimir Putin throughout the campaign.
We know that his surrogates were in constant communication with not only the Russian Ambassador, but with Russian Intelligence agents. They even wrote in the Republican platform at the RNC Convention that we would not arm Ukrain against Russian Separatists.
That's how much Trump loved Putin. Who wants another ******* war in the middle east--that will be backed by Putin? It was you Trump supporters that didn't want to help the Syrians. It was you Trump supporters that continually said no to Syrian refugees.
Here's what Putin has done to Syria:
So Trump was O.K. with Putin bombing the shit out of these people and killing kids,(while he was praising Putin--and crticisizing Hillary Clinton's statement about a no fly zone) and now that chemical weapons are involved he decides to react.
I am not so certain that he didn't do this just to divert attention away from all these Russian investigations. That wouldn't surprise me in the least.