[Peace-discuss] Invasion of Syria

[C G Estabrook]

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford said the Pentagon "specifically identified targets" to "mitigate the risk of Russian forces being involved.” 


> On Apr 13, 2018, at 11:34 PM, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Maybe they have indeed remembered something and learnt something on that low hill in south Arlington, where I worked as teenager.
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> The orders that the military executed today contrasted with the wildly contradictory accounts from the weakest US president since Coolidge: 
> “We'll be coming out of Syria very soon.,” said Trump last week; “Get ready Russia … smart bombs!” Trump warned on Wednesday, promising strikes on Syria.
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> 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]
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> 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.
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> —CGE
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> *<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/11/world/middleeast/syria-military-us-russia-iran.html <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/11/world/middleeast/syria-military-us-russia-iran.html>>
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>> On Apr 13, 2018, at 7:06 PM, kmedina67 via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>> Carl, Unless there has been a military coup d'état, the Pentagon is not where the order  to bomb Syria came from. 
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: C G Estabrook 
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>> The Pentagon seems to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing this century.
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>> What would be the popular response to a 'shock and awe' invasion of Syria, a la Iraq?
>> 
>> —CGE
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