(06-21-2019, 08:56 PM)pirkster Wrote:

(06-21-2019, 05:36 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Are you kidding? Nobody in their right mind, wanted a war. NOBODY. Not the left, not the right. You're looking for a fight where there isn't one. It was an unmanned drone. You don't command air strikes for that. If it was manned, that would be a different story, but it wasn't. Chill out dude! For once everyone is on the same page. You're just so one-sided, you can't see it. Geez. The only reason anyone is upset, is the fact that Trump even considered an airstrike.

I'm old enough to remember when presidents would bomb pill factories to distract from bad press.

I hate to scare you about the reality of it all, but our military prepares to kill our enemies around the clock.  It's only decisions like this that keep them from happening.

The strikes you're referring to killed 11 Sudanese suspected to be making chemical weapons, and it was in retaliation for some of their friends bombing embassies that resulted in the deaths of 12 Americans.  
It may have been based on faulty intelligence, but it was proportional.

Whether it was about bad press or not seems like sour grapes at this point.  You can let it go.

Also note that the same former POTUS had airstrikes ready to go to kill OBL while he was in Kandahar.  He called it off because the final intelligence analysis said the strikes would kill about 300 people total. Al-Qaeda had not quite killed that many people yet.  Proportionality matters.  Trump and Clinton have both faced difficult decisions in this area and so far have balanced the concerns.  I hope Trump continues to do so.

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