What would you do in Syria

[Dill]

(04-08-2017, 09:01 PM)bfine32 Wrote: We should make our foreign policy decisions based on the best interest of out Nation. It's just icing on the cake when the rest of the world (except Russia, Iran, and members of PnR) applaud it. 

Two days before the attack, Tillerson broke precedent with Obama and Bush, stating that Assad's fate was up to the Syrian people. After keeping it out of sight since 2013, Assad promptly brought the gas out.  Perhaps Trump did not know what the statement signaled?

But then we are told Trump was "moved" by the sight of dying toddlers. Soon after he strikes Syria. Is it clear the strike was not an emotional response, and of the sort which would of course be condemned in a female head of state?  I don't know if emotion was clearly the motivation. Trump was unmoved when HUNDREDS of children were gassed in 2013, and he urged "foolish" Obama not to respond, stay out of Syria, put America first.

We are, after all, referring to the man who has demonized Syrian refugees, seeking to ban their entry into the US.
Trump even told his cruelly cheering Trumpsters that he could look Syrian children in the face and tell them "No, you can't come here."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47t4AHd2aPg
 So it's not clear at all why he suddenly reversed his hands off Syria policy, whatever the official reasons given.

It is still not clear how this strike was in "the national interest."  Has Trump defined the national interest in foreign policy goals? Something more specific than "America first" or "be decisive"?


On a side note: At least one segment of Trump's base has called the gas attack a hoax. They believe Trump was fooled by the Obama deepstate in to attacking. http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/done-with-trump-donald-trumps-online-base-fumes-about-syria-strikes-1678815   They think Trump has betrayed his promise to put America first.

I never expected authentic Trumpsters to begin criticizing him so soon.  Unless he continues paralyzing government and breaking up foreign policy, their support may be peeling away, just as the support of "independents" is peeling away now.