<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford said the Pentagon <em class="">"specifically identified targets"</em> to <em class="">"mitigate the risk of Russian forces being involved.</em><i class="">”</i> <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 13, 2018, at 11:34 PM, C G Estabrook <<a href="mailto:cgestabrook@gmail.com" class="">cgestabrook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On the contrary, the Pentagon - as a result of discussions with Gen. Gerasimov - is exactly where the order for the limited and symbolic strikes on Damascus came from.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe they have indeed remembered something and learnt something on that low hill in south Arlington, where I worked as teenager.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The orders that the military executed today contrasted with the wildly contradictory accounts from the weakest US president since Coolidge: <div class=""><div class=""><span class="st">“We'll be <em class="">coming out of Syria</em> very soon.</span>,” said Trump last week; “Get ready Russia … smart bombs!” Trump warned on Wednesday, promising strikes on Syria.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But the attacks today were limited & symbolic - and avoided Russians.* "I'm seeing both Trump loyalists and parts of the #McResistance falling all over themselves to claim that there were no civilian casualties, long before they could possibly know that such an unreasonable expectation is true. War brings people together in the strangest ways.” [Caitlin Johnstone]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And the "Invasion of Syria” by takfiri from the KSA and Qatar was ordered by Obama (who spent a billion dollars on it), not Trump.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*<<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/11/world/middleeast/syria-military-us-russia-iran.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/11/world/middleeast/syria-military-us-russia-iran.html</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 13, 2018, at 7:06 PM, kmedina67 via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Carl, Unless there has been a military c<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Roboto, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">oup d'état</span>, the Pentagon is not where the order to bomb Syria came from. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="composer_signature" class=""><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 100%;" class=""></div><div style="font-size: 100%;" class=""><!-- originalMessage --><div class="">-------- Original message --------</div><div class="">From: C G Estabrook </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="userContent _22jv _3576 _5pbx" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_84"><p class="">The Pentagon seems to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing this century. </p><p class=""> What would be the popular response to a 'shock and awe' invasion of Syria, a la Iraq?</p><div class="">—CGE</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace-discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>