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What's the benchmark for this Good guy thing? Bush, Blair, Obama, Cameraon? I know that the Alawites, Christians, Shia, Jews, Yazid's and other minority groups are protected from the Sunni's. The Kurds just want autonmy and aren't pushing for Assad to go. I am sure he does care what they think...

There is no certainty but my subjective view is that if I was in Assad’s position I would consider using chemical weapons as suicidal. The rebels Al Nusra, Sham and Daesh etc on the other hand don’t care what the UN thinks and they have nothing to lose especially if Assad always gets blamed for...

Maybe. And because of all this Trump fly's out to Moscow urgently so him and Putin can do busines in private. :)

Well, the US certainly gave Russia a warning about bombing the runway so hypothetically if that was all that was being targeted it would makes some sense to let them in and save using an expensive defense system to meet 50 plus tomahawks. I think they are saying that those tomahawks cost $£12m...

Why? Russia was informed in advance to avoid aircraft being shot down so Assad would have been tipped off to get his troops the hell out of there.

Yes my comment could read like that. I can't see it hurting Assad, yes he probably would deny it if used chemical weapons but he would also deny it if he didn't. The problem is the crying wolf issue that we have lived with since Iraq and currently I would ask the question why Assad would risk...

It had crossed my mind but how does Trump organise anything like this with Putin? There is nowhere he can go in the US where he can't be listened to but otherwise as a plan it does do what you say.

Yes you are right, I should correct myself; they took the appropriate action level based on how certain they were. Of course if they were 100% certain they should directly target Assad and not bomb a runway. Yes we can. If he did use chemical weapons he wouldn't use them again after last night.

Trump may think it is ok to bomb North Korea from the safety of the US, but all the North Korean missiles are pointing at South Korea. Kim Jong Un wouldn't think twice about about firing the kitchen sink at them. Then it is a question of who has the best defense system set up.

Boris Johnson 4/5/17 “All the evidence I have … suggests that this was the Assad regime who did it in the full knowledge that they were using illegal weapons in a barbaric attack on their own people,” Johnson told reporters ahead of a conference on the future of Syria in Brussels. 6/517 “The...

:lolol: No I didn't.

https://youtu.be/LULzvg1gA5U

If Syria did use chemical weapons it was a proportional response but everything has got pinned on Assad for the last 6 years. Out of previous claims of chemicals being used 3 or 4 were proved to have been rebels and the other one they claim was Assad. I guess one of them had to be Assad after...