Ahead of Attack, Hillary Clinton called for strikes against Syrian airfields

[shaykh]

Firstly...this isn't been posted as a defence for unilateral action by the US...

Rather this is for those who have used this attack to suggest that this was Trump being aggressive...Hilary as it happens would have done exactly the same...and it's in character with the hawk she has always been...

So if you're against unilateral action then fair enough...

If you're criticising this attack and using partisan politics then really you don't have a leg to stand on...

Hours before the U.S. launched airstrikes against Syria, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spoke out Thursday about how she would respond to Tuesday's chemical attack in Syria, promoting U.S. action to prevent further attacks with civilian casualties.

Speaking at the Women in the World summit in New York City, Clinton said that the U.S. "should have been more willing to confront [Syrian President Bashar al-Assad]," before Russia got involved in the country's civil war and with Iran's participation limited to ground-based assistance.

Assad had an air force and that air force is the cause of most of the civilian deaths as we’ve seen over the years and as we saw again in the last few days," said Clinton. "I really believe we should have and still should take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-calls-strikes-syrian-airfields/story?id=46635881

 

[Cracket]

Hillary only endorsed the attack once she found out Trump/Pentagon had approved it. She's still got moles inside the government.

 

[shaykh]

Hillary only endorsed the attack once she found out Trump/Pentagon had approved it. She's still got moles inside the government.

You suggesting she would do any different?...on foreign policy these two are peas in a pod...

The mistake that most of us made including myself was believing Trump would be less hawkish than Hilary...

I just find it odd that some democrats are slamming Trump for acting unilaterally when the US has always done that and that Hilary already has form in this area in terms of support for such acts...

 

[Yossarian]

You suggesting she would do any different?...on foreign policy these two are peas in a pod...

The mistake that most of us made including myself was believing Trump would be less hawkish than Hilary...

I just find it odd that some democrats are slamming Trump for acting unilaterally when the US has always done that and that Hilary already has form in this area in terms of support for such acts...

The USA is built on the premise of shoot first ask questions later. This, coupled with the fact that when you're the mightiest force around with no one to challenge you, automatically leads to rules only needing to be followed when it suits you. And now when you have a bully in charge of it all, someone who comes from a privileged background and has been used to getting his way by hook or crook all his life, then it's inevitable that acting unilaterally is always on the cards.

 

[R0H1T]

You suggesting she would do any different?...on foreign policy these two are peas in a pod...

The mistake that most of us made including myself was believing Trump would be less hawkish than Hilary...

I just find it odd that some democrats are slamming Trump for acting unilaterally when the US has always done that and that Hilary already has form in this area in terms of support for such acts...

Trump also has this "little hands" syndrome so there's good reason for the world to be wary of him.

 

[Varun]

Yawn, the carpet bombing and the calls for it continue.

It doesn't matter who the President is.

 

[Cracket]

You suggesting she would do any different?...on foreign policy these two are peas in a pod...

The mistake that most of us made including myself was believing Trump would be less hawkish than Hilary...

I just find it odd that some democrats are slamming Trump for acting unilaterally when the US has always done that and that Hilary already has form in this area in terms of support for such acts...

Before Trump ordered the Syria bombings, the CNN and all MSM was going overdrive on Trump-Russia fake news. Now if Trump had refused to do anything when CNN was continuously playing the chemical attacks 24x7, they would have held it against Trump saying he won't attack Assad because of Russia. This is how the establishment play their games. All Trump did was attack some airport that was barely damaged at all, and immediately afterwards said we are not invading Assad, and some few days later now even Rex Tillerson is saying again that future of Assad rests on the Syrian people and not US invasions.

I do feel Trump is not strong enough to fight the CIA/Beltway D.C. agenda on war but the good thing is he never gives up. That's how he won Presidency despite all odds. JFK tried to shut down this CIA and he was killed. If Trump wants the anti-war agenda to prevail he needs to attack CIA and their propaganda media from every angle. He's doing that.

 

[Robert]

I do feel Trump is not strong enough to fight the CIA/Beltway D.C. agenda on war but the good thing is he never gives up. That's how he won Presidency despite all odds. JFK tried to shut down this CIA and he was killed. If Trump wants the anti-war agenda to prevail he needs to attack CIA and their propaganda media from every angle. He's doing that.

By attacking Syria, beefing up the US NATO commitment in Europe, spending zillions on new nukes and sailing a carrier group toward NK? Come on. He has realised that the job is much more complex than he thought when he was on the stump.

There is no Deep State, that's just conspiracy theory.

 

[Cracket]

By attacking Syria, beefing up the US NATO commitment in Europe, spending zillions on new nukes and sailing a carrier group toward NK? Come on. He has realised that the job is much more complex than he thought when he was on the stump.

There is no Deep State, that's just conspiracy theory.

I think its a conspiracy theory at this point to deny defense industries and CIA want peace with Russia. Or that they mistakenly lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. CIA exists only to manufacture wars and to topple anything in Middle-East that threatens Israel or US Petrodollar trading, even if it means giving birth to Al-Qaeda or fighting alongside them in Syria.

They're and a blight of this world and all of Middle-East. Trump is carefully playing along their agenda for now.