{"id":357933,"date":"2018-04-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/missiles-over-damascus\/"},"modified":"2018-04-22T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:00:00","slug":"missiles-over-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/missiles-over-damascus\/","title":{"rendered":"Missiles Over Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Official U.S. Navy Page | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


Monsters and Animals<\/strong><\/p>\n

On 13 April 2018 President Donald Trump ordered the bombing of selective targets in the Syrian capital, Damascus. He did so because he was emotionally upset by Syrian President Bashar al- Assad\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>alleged\u00a0<\/em>use of chemical weapons against civilians in the town of Douma \u2013 the last rebel (ISIS-style) stronghold adjacent to the capital.<\/p>\n

Just prior to Trump\u2019s actualizing his emotions by throwing missiles into Damascus, he had expressed his opinion (and keep in mind that there is no difference between fact and opinion for Mr.Trump) that President Assad is a \u201cmonster<\/a>\u201d as well as an \u201canimal.<\/a>\u201d At least in part because the Syrian President stooped to \u201ckilling his own people.\u201d The problem with all this is (1) Trump has\u00a0no hard evidence that Assad was behind the alleged gas attack<\/a>\u00a0and (2) killing your own people is, unfortunately, what civil wars are all about.<\/p>\n

Alas, the world has always been, and still is, full of \u201cmonsters\u201d and \u201canimals.\u201d And, since we are throwing around such epithets, we might as well give a couple of close-to-home examples of those qualifying behaviors.<\/p>\n

\u2014 How about the invasion of a nation along with the subsequent killing of at least half a million people, all based on \u201cfalse and overstated intelligence<\/a>\u201d? That is what the \u201cmonster\u201d and \u201canimal\u201d President George W. Bush did back in 2003 in Iraq.<\/p>\n

\u2014How about lining up a\u00a0100 \u201csharpshooters\u201d\u00a0<\/a>at a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by Official U.S. Navy Page | CC BY 2.0 Monsters and Animals On 13 April 2018 President Donald Trump ordered the bombing of selective targets in the Syrian capital, Damascus. He did so because he was emotionally upset by Syrian President Bashar al- Assad\u2019s\u00a0alleged\u00a0use of chemical weapons against civilians in the town of Douma […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}