Trump says view on Assad, Syria changed after seeing chemical attack

Element-22-Cat said:
That's what the Republican's claimed he did. At least OBL was enemy #1 at the time while in this case Assad had already been relegated off the serious offender list by the Trump admin.

I don't trust he had a change of heart in any way. You shouldn't be surprised about the rise of the MIC, Trump was pushing for a big increase in military spending before the election and his proposed budget confirmed it.
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I was in undergrad when the whole Clinton thing happened and quite honestly didn't give one wit about politics back then and haven't gone back to read the history of it, because it doesn't really matter to me now.

As to Trump, no, I will not, nor ever be surprised by the rise of the MIC or Corporations in this country's government. It has always been happening. And you're right, Trump never said he was against more money for the MIC.

59 tomahawk missiles. I wonder how many, if any, Obama would have launched.
 
Darth Omar said:
I've said more times than I can count that Trump is a pragmatist and not an ideologue: he's not locked-in to a facts on the ground be damned approach to problems like Syria. So it doesn't surprise me that he would re-think his approach.

Syria is a basket case even by Middle East standards.
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Which is a recipe for another Iraq.
 
Element-22-Cat said:
The attack was brutal, but it wasn't as bad as the previous chemical weapons attack that Assad did in 2013. Far more people died in it.

So why shouldn't we ask the following questions?

Why did Trump have to see pictures of innocent children suffering to change his mind? Did he somehow think that the children and other people killed and injured in the previous attack didn't suffer equally horrendous fates? Why does someone have to see it, you know that is what happens. How did he dismiss it before? Why did this chemical attack "cross the line"? Assad has already crossed the line many times, from the previous chemical attack to illegal barrel bombs which inflict much greater harm to civilians, killing and maiming in grotesque ways.
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Rump was against Obama doing this in 2013.
 
He can't say he didn't know the rules. From Trump's twitter feed in 2013:

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump

The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not!
1:02 AM · Aug 31, 2013
 
Jarod said:
He can't say he didn't know the rules. From Trump's twitter feed in 2013:

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump

The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not!
1:02 AM · Aug 31, 2013
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Hey stupid, read the thread title again.
 
Yaya said:
Yes he was, and he is being a hypocrite, but, what about the chemical weapons attack? Is a President not allowed to change his mind? Should he stick to his prior comments?
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There was a chemical weapons attack in the days prior to Rump attacking Obama.

He attacked Obama on a myriad of things that he now does. He should apologize to Obama.
 
Jarod said:
Rump was against Obama doing this in 2013.
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I know, and that is why his reasoning doesn't add up. Assad has "crossed the line" many times with the first chemical attack being far worse than the latest. And children have been killed and maimed by illegal barrel bomb attacks as well so his "No child should ever suffer such a horror" is empty rhetoric.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
the Dems are salivating about the possibility that Trump will change positions......they don't give a fuck about gassed babies but they are having orgasms about the chance to criticize Trump for warmongering.....
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Suddenly he cares about Syrian babies? Please.

"....a U.S. military intervention—or an intensified intervention, since America has been bombing Syria for years and has had at least several hundred troops in the country for some time—would almost certainly cause an increase in the number of refugees attempting to flee the region. (It would also lead to a rise in the number of civilian casualties, given the already-dramatic spike in civilian deaths caused by the U.S. since Trump took office.)

Yet, in a typically cruel bit of irony, Trump has been steadfast in his refusal to allow anyone fleeing the Syrian conflict into the United States. Trump has long stated that Syrian refugees in particular pose a terrorist threat to the U.S. (a claim Assad agreed with), despite all evidence showing that assertion to be entirely false."

http://fusion.net/trump-thinking-of-creating-more-syrian-refugees-that-he-1794088910
 
What happened that changed Rump's mind?

He was against this last time Assad used chemical weapons against children. The only difference was that Obama was president.
 
I think the Republicans should not have stopped Obama from doing this last time there was a chemical attack four years ago. It might have saved these children's lives.
 
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