[Northern Monkey]

Oh ****!
The US has carried out a missile attack against targets in Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town.
A Pentagon official said about 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired at a Syrian air base.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad should have no role in a future Syria.
His comments signalled a sudden shift in policy by the new US administration.
Syria war: US launches missile strikes following chemical 'attack'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39523654

[Rob!]

Oh Christ.

This coming from a president who has been nothing short of ambivalent towards the civil war and Assad's games over the past few years.

[Shaun]

I thought Trump was going to avoid WW3

[Denver]

Originally Posted by Rob!

Oh Christ.

This coming from a president who has been nothing short of ambivalent towards the civil war and Assad's games over the past few years.

Apparently it was the videos of the kids that broke him

[Rob!]

Social media going insane at the minute crying that World War III is about to begin.

[Denver]

Syria dont have the means to start a war and they wont have the allies will to start one for them

[Brother Leon]

Just what the Syrian people need. More explosions and foreign meddling. My heart breaks for them.

[Denver]

Originally Posted by Brother Leon

Just what the Syrian people need. More explosions and foreign meddling. My heart breaks for them.

So y8u would rather their government kill thousands of innocent the people ?

[Northern Monkey]

Better hope there were no Russian aircraft at that base and that they weren't hit.59 missiles were apparently launched to take out the airbase that the chemical weapon attack was launched from.

[Brother Leon]

Originally Posted by Adam.

So y8u would rather their government kill thousands of innocent the people ?

It's a ****ed up situation created in large part due to foreign meddling in the first place. What do you think is going to happen when the Syrian Army keeps getting bombed? Jihadists rejoice and push through and kill innocent people of their own. It's delusional to think otherwise.

Trump should have took his own advice..

[jaxie]

I think war is the most dumb event mankind participates in. No one wins. The innocent lose most of all. But at least someone has done something that sends a message that the chemical weapons are not ok and there are consequences rather than all sitting around saying isn't that terrible while they do it again. Let's not forget this is not the first time. This is a no win situation but do nothing and you comply. There has been a lot of doing nothing. It's a dreadful situation. One wonders if Kim Jong Un has a little poop in his panties tonight.

[arista]

David Cameron
in 2013 wanted to do this
but Labour Party blocked them.

[arista]

"Trump should have took his own advice.."

Yes , but he can change his mind.

[Kazanne]

And so the mass panic begins,no one wants a war and it was fully backed by the UK,it was one strike at an airfield believed to have been where the chemical weapons were fired, I see nothing wrong with people in power doing UTurns it shows they are willing to listen to people and change their minds,better that than sticking to something that could be wrong.It's hard to say what is right sitting back and watching innocents die or trying to sort it out.

[Northern Monkey]

Youtube video

[Northern Monkey]

Youtube video

[Beso]

At last we have someone with the bollocks to act.

[Northern Monkey]

US airstrikes on Syria come just hours after Hillary Clinton called for bombing of Assad's airfields.

Hillary Clinton called for the United States to bomb Syrian air fields just hours before Donald Trump ordered the airstrike.


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.mir...n-10175877.amp

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

US airstrikes on Syria come just hours after Hillary Clinton called for bombing of Assad's airfields.

Hillary Clinton called for the United States to bomb Syrian air fields just hours before Donald Trump ordered the airstrike.


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.mir...n-10175877.amp

Hmh. This really does just confirm that it doesn't actually matter who wins these elections... Global events are like a tidal force, and will go the way they are going regardless.

[Livia]

About time someone did something, how sad that it ended up being Trump. Assad could have been ousted years ago... but we voted against action. How many children have died since then? How many communities have been gassed? Was it worth it?

[Brother Leon]

[waterhog]

debated on wrightstuff - just watching now - apparently ever caller in was against us stepping in ?

[Livia]

Originally Posted by waterhog

debated on wrightstuff - just watching now - apparently ever caller in was against us stepping in ?

Every caller who's sitting at home and watching telly on a Thursday morning. Presumably they're okay with Assad's continued genocide, then? If gassing women and children don't make us step in, what will? I do not relish us getting involved but sometimes something happens that calls for it.

[MTVN]

So much for Trump being Putins poodle and doing whatever he said then, he has now done more to piss off the Russians in a few hours than Obama did in eight years

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Livia

About time someone did something, how sad that it ended up being Trump. Assad could have been ousted years ago... but we voted against action. How many children have died since then? How many communities have been gassed? Was it worth it?

I wonder if Miliband can sleep at night. It was him who played politics with it.