According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump is continuing to push top military advisers to accept a plan for a “sweeping” military strike against the Syrian government. They say he is “unhappy” with the Pentagon’s offers so far, feeling they don’t go far enough.
Defense Secretary James Mattis has been openly hesitant about a strike on Syria, saying he is concerned about it leading to a direct US war with Russia. Trump, however, is said to want Mattis to “push the limits a little bit more.”
Indeed, Trump wants the strike not only to hit the Syrian government, but to “exact a price” from both the Iranian and Russian forces inside Syria. This is in keeping with Trump saying just two days ago that Russia should “get ready” for US missiles.
This isn’t the first time President Trump was said to be unhappy with the options given to him by th4e military. A few months ago, before diplomacy in North Korea started happening, Trump was very keen on getting more and more options for attacking Pyongyang.
With Syria, Trump was already in the process of assembling a coalition and telling Russia to “get ready” before serious push-back began on the war. Which isn’t to say that Trump is the most hawkish in his administration on Syria.
That would have to be John Bolton, his National Security Adviser, who is said to be pushing for something vastly bigger than the 2017 attack. The Wall Street Journal said he favors a “ruinous” attack against Syria, that would cripple the government and national infrastructure of the country.
James Mattis has long tried to be a voice of reason in cabinet meetings, but with the sacking of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Mattis now finds himself alone on the side of caution, and risking being drown out by a cacophony of calls from hawks to attack.
well if this isn’t fake news, its been nice knowing ya.
These fools are going to kill allot of people for the benefit of whom?
Trump is probably about to make the biggest mistake of his presidency.
Pat, I am afraid Trump is finished if this is true, the question is is he so delusional he does not even know it?
Time to fractionize another MI country to create another failed state..
Why does Trump and Bolton want to attack Syria and Russia for a gas attack that never happened . We already Attacked Syria once for a saran gas attacked they did not do . Don’t You think we might sooner or latter provoke Russia to sink those expensive floating air bases we have over there . Obviously we do not believe Putin when he says Russia will be forced to respond to another attack garnered by one false flag incident after another . We must not believe Russia and China have been colluding and working together for the last 20 years just to confront the USA . We must not believe Putin when he says his missiles can not be stopped or that one Russian missile can take out 10 targets with one shot .
The last of pocket of the Ghouta region holding out was full of fanatic Jaish AL Islam, an al Queda group that has no qualms about gas or nuclear weapons uses.
Bolton should be tried, and hanged
So instead of good cop being Trump and bad cop being Bolton, we now have Mattis being good cop against bad cops Trump and Bolton.
“Mad Dog” Mattis cast as the good cop? Hmm… I don’t know if this reality show has wings. I know you’re an atheist, but Heaven help us.
Of course I only meant relative to Trump and Bolton. Otherwise Mattis is a general in a suit and I have no use for either.
Generals like Mattis have seen soldiers and civilians ripped into strips of skin and muscle.
Russia has won this war. Al Queda ran the majority of rebels, so called. Stability and containing this conflict is not advanced by ripping infrastructure in Syria apart. If Bolton doesn’t know, there are 5 million refugees and millions of homes and shops in rubble already.
#no more war
#bringthetroopshome
Mattis= Bad cop
Trump= Worse cop
Bolton= Worst cop
Bolton seems to be out of the loop; Syrian infrastructure mostly is ruins. He probably wants craters.
Trump is a ‘popularity’ junkie. If his ratings go up by 5% he will send more missiles. All the MSM (with the exception of Carlson and Ingraham) think he has finally come round to their way of thinking.
The fact that he will go down in history next to Stalin, Pol Pot and yes, Hitler, has escaped him.
He does not need some Russian hooker, the whole world will happily P*ss on him.