Syria - what is to be done?

It wouldn't surprise me at all if this was the perfect excuse for putin to pull out of Syria.
And yes your right nina1959 many people have known for a long time that Sweden isn't all sweetness and light. It was only a matter of time.

Good post Nina1959. A stand had to be made.

Not sure what all this stuff about WW3 is getting at. Putin has no more intention of starting WW3 than Jeremy Corbyn. But it seems he is happy to condone the indiscriminate use of sarin gas on children, at least if nobody makes any move to stop it.
As to posters signifying how they might well support the US action if only there was some sensible long term strategy, I'm very grateful to them for letting me know that the Pentagon has made them party to its long term strategic thinking (or absence of it). Or maybe the Secretary of State has posted an admission on Gransnet and I missed that one?
In my naivety I thought the US was simply making the point that while it has said it won't interfere in Syria, there are still red lines in the sand, including Obama's own red line that there must be no use of chemical weapons. As to whether that makes any sense in the context an acceptance by the US of the fact that Assad has used other weapons to even more destructive effect, well, yes it does make sense. Hence the support from the likes of the shadow defence minister, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, and the leader of the Liberal Democrats, none of whom to my knowledge have been advocating the bombing of Syria up to now. But Perhaps they should all listen more to Nigel Farage.

I'm afraid I wonder about the timing of this whole episode. Trump is being investigated about his links to Russia who are fighting a war in Syria. Chemical weapons are used in that war and film of this is widely circulated in the media. Trump then sends missiles to an airbase where the chemical weapons are said to be stored. Suddenly Trump is a hero and a man of action. It stinks to high heaven.

I must admit I thought ww for one must indeed be privy to Trump's thinking and motivation from the content of some of her posts Fitzy. Unless it's an opinion from somewhere else...

Trisher I'm not sure what you are suggesting. That Trump just saw an opportunity to take the heat off himself? That he orchestrated the whole thing, dropping the sarin gas himself? Or something else?

Not him personally Fitzy54 but perhaps his Russian friends or their Syrian allies provided him with a very nice opportunity?

trisher I don't think I have ever heard such a far fetched conspiracy theory!

You've led a sheltered life then rar

The problem is that lots of people who dislike/hate Donald Trump cannot bring themselves to say that he and his administration have actually done something right.
This is just as bad as those who claim that a politician they like can do no wrong.
All this stuff about WW3 is completely OTT.

Far from it trisher but I try and stay grounded.

That was a very strange rambling (fly on the wall of the Oval Office) post WW

I actually like Trump. He doesn't pretend to be who is. He's blatantly Donald Trump and somehow I feel safe with is unpalatable truth far more than a politician who acts to an audience.

Do you live in the USA?

Trump is always playing to his audience.

The trouble is, his decisions and actions are unpredictable.

I live in the UK.

I think it says a lot that his ex wives still like him.

Really?

This from the New Yorker

"When “Lost Tycoon” was published, Trump denounced it, and last year, in a tweet, he called Hurt (the author) a “dummy dope” who “wrote a failed book.”

The part of the book that caused the most controversy concerns Trump’s divorce from his first wife, Ivana. Hurt obtained a copy of her sworn divorce deposition, from 1990, in which she stated that, the previous year, her husband had raped her in a fit of rage. In Hurt’s account, Trump was furious that a “scalp reduction” operation he’d undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked out a handful of his wife’s hair, and then forced himself on her sexually. Afterward, according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom, crying; in the morning, Trump asked her, “with menacing casualness, ‘Does it hurt?’ ” Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp-reduction procedure. Hurt said that the incident, which is detailed in Ivana’s deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends.

I'm pleased you live in the UK, nina. You won't be able to vote for the idiot.

Well they all turned up at his inauguration so it beats me.

Free dress and make-up?

A three-line whip?

Really? They turned up under protest???? I don't think so.

Apparently they has a $300 budget for clothes, etc. Amazing what the idea of a free meal will do!