What would you do in Syria

[Benton]

(04-10-2017, 04:20 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: What is a cruise missile, but a bottle rocket with a cellphone GPS anyone can strap explosives to and crash into innocent folks?  It cheapens war. Especially for the Syrians when you don't hit the airstrip and flights resume within hours.

Except at $1.8 million each for 59 tomahawk missiles, we could have relocated all of the victims of the chemical attack, put $1 million each in their pockets, and stimulated our economy via the trickle down effect of voodoo economics.

First of all, consider all the collateral damage and the problems missiles cause to our ground forces in Syria who may have to move occupy after such an indiscriminate attack.

Secondly, a cruise missile is nothing more than an aerial IED and that's how cowards engage in combat.

Where do people keep coming up with these numbers? I've seen it go from $500,000 to $1 million to the expected replacement cost of $1.5 million. At this rate, in another week, this will have been a $50 billion attack. In a month we could've just bought Assad out of his time share at a cheaper rate than attacking him with our $1 trillion (each) tomahawk missiles.