Guest Post by Scott Adams
According to the mainstream media – that has been wrong about almost everything for a solid 18 months in a row – the Syrian government allegedly bombed its own people with a nerve agent.
The reason the Assad government would bomb its own people with a nerve agent right now is obvious. Syrian President Assad – who has been fighting for his life for several years, and is only lately feeling safer – suddenly decided to commit suicide-by-Trump. Because the best way to make that happen is to commit a war crime against your own people in exactly the way that would force President Trump to respond or else suffer humiliation at the hands of the mainstream media.
And how about those pictures coming in about the tragedy. Lots of visual imagery. Dead babies. It is almost as if someone designed this “tragedy” to be camera-ready for President Trump’s consumption. It pushed every one of his buttons. Hard. And right when things in Syria were heading in a positive direction.
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- Interesting timing.
- Super-powerful visual persuasion designed for Trump in particular.
- Suspiciously well-documented event for a place with no real press.
- No motive for Assad to use gas to kill a few dozen people at the cost of his entire regime. It wouldn’t be a popular move with Putin either.
- The type of attack no U.S. president can ignore and come away intact.
- A setup that looks suspiciously similar to the false WMD stories that sparked the Iraq war.
I’m going to call bullshit on the gas attack. It’s too “on-the-nose,” as Hollywood script-writers sometimes say, meaning a little too perfect to be natural. This has the look of a manufactured event.
My guess is that President Trump knows this smells fishy, but he has to talk tough anyway. However, keep in mind that he has made a brand out of not discussing military options. He likes to keep people guessing. He reminded us of that again yesterday, in case we forgot.
So how does a Master Persuader respond to a fake war crime?
He does it with a fake response, if he’s smart.
Watch now as the world tries to guess where Trump is moving military assets, and what he might do to respond. The longer he drags things out, the less power the story will have on the public. We’ll be wondering for weeks when those bombs will start hitting Damascus, and Trump will continue to remind us that he doesn’t talk about military options.
Then he waits for something bad to happen to Assad’s family, or his generals, in the normal course of chaos over there. When that happens on its own, the media will wonder if it was Trump sending a strong message to Assad in a measured way. Confirmation bias will do the rest.
There is also a non-zero chance that Putin just asked Assad to frame one of his less-effective Syrian generals for going rogue with chemical weapons, and executing him just to calm things down.
I don’t think we’ll ever know what’s going on over there. But I think we can rule out the idea that Assad decided to commit suicide-by-Trump.
Excellent analysis. This feels like the 2006 fiasco in Lebanon, where Hezbollah & its minions produced the fake/staged photos.
Maybe, but don’t think so this time.
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war”.
…………..William Randolph Hearst 1898
And it also came in the middle of the Susan Rice treason story – how convenient.
My first thought also–almost immediately upon hearing the story I thought, ” what the hell could it possibly benefit Assad in the slightest to commit a nerve gas attack?”
He’s in a good spot with Russian allies, the Turks more intent on the Kurds and a POTUS who is fine with “letting those over there settle their own affairs.”
ISIS has been getting decimated and has essentially been driven out from their “capital” in Mosul as well as the Aleppo airfields have returned to Syrian govt control…
I’ve seen enough behind-the-scenes footage of “Pali-wood” fake sufferings and the propaganda of the dying little girl in Syria for me to at least question immediately the validity of a story/scenario that makes no sense except to the uninformed.
The tell will be this weekend AFTER the Senate vote on SCOTUS. Once McCain and Lindsey vote to put Gorsuch on the bench, then maybe Trump can back off. After all, he’s good at talking book, and then doing either nothing or changing. If he screws the pooch on Syria… well… he’s still better than Hillary. He’s gonna screw up on something sooner or later. But my hunch is, he’s playing the press and probably using this to get something from Putin or Assad or McCain , etc… in a week it will be a nothing burger. Especially with Xiu in Florida…. this story will get eclipsed soon in the MSM.
update… it’s looking like Trump is really stepping in the poo. Damn. I hope the reports coming out this afternoon are blather and not policy. ie, Tillerson wants Assad out. no bueno.
Trump is not trying to take out Assad, just trying to adjust his attitude; but needs to get his attention first, hence the Tomahawk two-by-four.
I really hope Scott Adams is correct and Trump will not do anything stupid. But I worry that the neocons are back in the driver’s seat.
Now that Donald’s bombed Syria we know Scott Adams was giving him way, way too much credit. Persuasion master my ass! At least Obama was smart enough to never attack Syria.
Not Neocons, just men with balls.
Teatard, let’s hear your spin on this latest Trump fuckup. Your usual blurb answers won’t work. Trump just fired missiles at a country with whom we weren’t even at war, in direct defiance of everything he claimed to be about during his campaign.
You’re going to find it hard to maintain the fiction that you aren’t a blind GOP koolade drinker if you confuse neocons with brave men.
All of the above plus I wonder if the Bannon out, Kushner in is relevant to this ‘distraction’.
Obama used a bunch of distractions on the dummies – it worked.
Trump is just a balding New World Order puppet, but even worse – he’s deceitful – and you’ve all been had.
Maybe,…but it might be just what it is,direct like Trump’s nature.
May be a CIA operation, or, may be it’s a Russian trap. There are too many sociopaths on both sides.
Russia has been humiliated in the past (like when Turkey shot down a Russian plane) to make them look as paper tigers. It would not be a surprise if Russians are staging this to show that America lacks resolve and strenght his standing in the middle east.
I imagine a situation to evolve as follow:
Trumps promises to do something, Russia say there is no proof, that it is a false flag, that they won’t allow Americans to convert Syria in another Libya. Then deploys S300, S400, Su’s and Mig’s, Kalibr, T90’s and troops all over Siria.
They also put their nuclear forces on high alert.
And China issue a veiled threat to the US not to continue with its “imperial” nation building experiments or “else”.
And Iran “tests” a nuclear device (probably provided by the Russians)
And then play chicken. May bee the public opinion in the US swerve away from neocons when faced with nuclear war. There is a difference now than when the Cuban missiles crisis happened. At that time, people trusted the government to work for them, but now….
Didn’t happen that way!
Good comments above.
To which I add the, “why is this in any real way our business” — i.e., the business of the good ole USA to intervene ?
If two of my neighbors are beating each other shitless, why would I want to intervene and risk a bloody nose ?
And no, I am not my brother’s keeper, whatta load of bullhockey that line is.
SnowieGeorgie
It is actually Israel’s business.
Actually, the quote, “am I my brother’s keeper?” has nothing to do with being a “line” or about protecting your brother/neighbor…
They were the words issued by Cain ( who had just MURDERED his brother Abel) when God asked him about it—so actually, the context is the exact opposite of what you think it is.
Just some info FWIW–otherwise, I also say screw them, maybe they could have a mass scale Islamic war and reduce the Muhammad followers by a billion or so….( the whole world would sleep more peacefully at night)
One trouble with that is that many Syrian victims of Assad are Christians, not Muslims.
The UN, Geneva Convention, and the International community has made our business. And yes, it can be argues that we should ignore the rest of the world and be isolationists. If that was viable, I could support that.
US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering military retaliation against Syrian President Bashar Assad after blaming him for a “heinous” chemical attack that killed at least 70 people, including at least a dozen children.
Who says the neocons aren’t in charge anymore?
I just read something on, maybe Breitbart, about there being pictures of a Syrian fixed wing aircraft dropping the bombs. Who knows if they’re real, staged, or computer graphics?
Cui bono?
Well sure as shit not you or me. It all smells like week old catfish that’s been sitting under the seat of the boat.
Fucked.
And now the gullible idiot has taken the bait. God help us all. I said before that they will get their WW3, and Trump is just the ignorant stooge to give it to them.
Trump has bombed Syrian govt forces.
Uh – oh. This could get nasty.
Trump is proving to be a fucking imbecile.
You got any room over there in Oz? Because I’m waaayy too close to the silos in North Dakota for my liking right about now.
Did NOT bomb Forces, only facilities. And yes, maybe it could get ugly, or….could clear the air about a number of things.
Voted for Trump but wound up with Jeb Bush instead…..
Trump finally drops the mask. The only thing that might keep us from war with Russia is that there’s an adult in charge over there who doesn’t give a shit what others say about him.
Don’t even bother with your bullshit, Trumpeteers. I’ve got a good idea what you’re all going to say in defense of this fucking overweight, overaged child you keep defending. Trump will tweet it all out for you pretty soon here.
I’ve been as big a Trump fan as anyone. This attack tonight is a major fuckup. Llpoh’s right. He’s in over his head and surrounded by neocon assholes. With McCain, Rubio, Hillary & Bill Kristol agreeing with this cruise missile strike, it can’t be anything but idiotic.
I don’t even have to say anything about this mess, just remember when I warned of bad juju and war drums getting loud. Admin should post the deer in the headlights photo for you retards.
There is nothing to say, he flipped 180. He was either a lying fuck all along or the deep state “persuaded” him.
Per my earlier post.
Fucked
McCain and Graham support the attack. That’s pretty much all you need to know as to how much of a mistake it was. You supply the photographs and I’ll supply the war….indeed! Works every time…every time…and yet EVERY TIME THE GODDAMN STUPID AMERICAN PEOPLE FALL FOR IT……EVERY TIME!
I call complete and utter bullshit on this entire “Syrian Sarin Attack”.
1) Why would Bashar do this? He knows that it will bring in the US, which under Trump is not going to prance and preen about Red Lines and then go play golf. Who really benefits here? I am betting it is the Al-Queda affiliates/ISIS that wants to draw the US into this quagmire since that worked out so well for us in the Gulf War 2 in terms of American soldiers dead/injured as well as the hit to our economy and international standing.
2) Russia and the US supposedly got rid of all of Bashar’s stockpiles several years ago. It didn’t make a lot of news at the time. Putin is many things but he knows these Middle East maniacs well enough to know that even if he supports them right now that is no guarantee that there won’t be sarin gas in the Moscow subway the next week. He might “support” Bashar or the Iranian mullahs but I guarantee you that Putin is not letting these maniacs get their hands on the real goodies. It is mainly to show opposition to the West that he does this.
3) The pictures of the rescue people treating the “victims” of the gas attack is totally bogus. Sarin is a liquid, that rapidly volatizes to a gas. It is spread by skin contact and by inhalation. As an oily liquid, it is very persistent in the environment. If these victims were drenched in sarin then why the hell aren’t the “rescuers” suffering sxs of Sarin exposusure while they assist the “victims” WITH THEIR BARE HANDS???? I did NBC training during my stint in the US Army Reserves and had additional training as a medical officer. We did training kitted out head to toe in these heavy rubber outfits, with an NBC mask, which was no picnic in the Central Texas heat/humidity of Ft. Hood I assure you. Did any of these rescuers in Syria have ANY kind of protective gear? No.
4) Any kind of persistent agent like sarin totally contaminants the entire area in which it is deployed which is why no sane person deploys it in an area he/she wishes to someday occupy. Why would you use it in a Civil War when you will later want to bring this territory under your control?
No, I fear Trump has been played by the neocon shitweazels like McCain et all who have been jacking off about US involvement in Syria for the last 5 years.
I have been worried about Trump not getting rid of the Obama hold overs fast enough and being co-opted by Goldman Sachs and the Deep State. I pray to God this isn’t true, becuz if it is, we are DONE.
Ron Paul had it right, again, the Gandalf of our age. This is a total false flag designed to draw the US in yet another worthless war in the ME, to enrich the MIC, to satisfy the Deep State and to divert the American People from the fact that TINVOWOOT.
Sorry to be away for so long. As much as I love Trump beating HRC, I think that is the spark on the powder keg and I have been very very busy.
Or,….maybe it’s as real as it looks. Don’t know, but hope so.
Fuck Donald “Clinton” Trump.
We are going to repeal Obama Care. No we are not.
We are going to have great tax reform. Not now for some reason because Obama Care repeal didn’t happen.
We are not going to get involved in Syria. Yes we are.
We are going after ISIS. No we’re not.
We are going to massively reduce regulations. No regulations reduced.
We are going to build a wall. No we aren’t.
The Administration is loaded with people from GS.
The Administration is running with the neocon war mongers.
You want to give Trump more time? What for…… to fuck up things up even more.
You think he is clever like a fox? Maybe you are right, he sure as hell has you fooled.
It’s the congress? Bullshit, he could rally the people to pressure the shit out of those weasel fuckwads. Is he doing that………fuck no.
It’s time end Federal government forever and replace it with nothing.
Well I guess you would have rather had Hitlery Clinton YoBo……..
(that is the long worn out retort to anyone who dares to question the savior)
All the msm needs now is plunger to push this crap down our throats.I no longer believe one ounce of Syrian baloney.Reality-ITS ALL FOR THE NAT GAS PIPELINE!The US is broke and is looting Syria for $$$$ imo.What most likely was at play was Reserve currency status of the dollar as it is backed with IOU’s .Russia, China are backing with gold.No one wants US debt .What if Russia and China join forces?
This is a perfect time to discuss what to do in a nuc attack and when the unthinkable happens.The does and donts. It is human nature to look,but do not because the flash will cause blindness.Also fallout,get shelter take off the contaminated cloths shower -do not use cream rinse as it will bind fallout to your hair.How long before it is safe from fallout?….Youtube has many “what if “tutorials.youtube even shows how to make a homemade radiation monitor
We survived the cold war.
Is this the same ? Will we survive this ? It surely feels different . . .
For example, JFK surely seemed adult in his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. But then he was a spoiled child like Clinton or Wilt Chamberlain, ( and others ) pursuing any woman he wanted to bed. Is that a dis-qualifier for being an adult ? Damned if I know.
If I may offer an opinion here : TRUMAN WAS THE LAST GREAT PRESIDENT. He was certainly the best President in the last 100 years, bar none.
Study the man. I recommend starting with the book “Truman” , by McCullough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_(book)
A truly great man for all seasons, going back to WWI when he raised his own Artillery Company, led it to France, and kept all of his men safe but for a couple who died in accidents over there ( from memory ) .
From Truman to Trump in just two generations . Sheesh ! And Trump coulda been great ( I think ) but he has already been co-opted by the cult of Washington and the NeoCons.
How sad for America.
SnowieGeorgie
Attention Assad…..and Putin, Iran, Jong-Un, China, ISIS, Obama, Hitlery, and terrorist everywhere: after 8 years, America has it’s balls back. DON’T MESS WITH THE DON. Assad can stay, but must “behave” according to International conventions. Don’t gas your citizens, especially children & babies. This is NOT war, but simply an up-side the head attention-getter.
IF the intel on the gas attack is accurate, then you are all wrong about this pin-point strike. It should turn out to be an effective, well timed attack with many international and domestic benefits without significant loss of life of anyone.
Very well said my friend.
But I still cannot help wondering why any of this is the business of the USA ?
There are lots of bad-actors in this world. And more than a few inhumane dictators, too.
Are we to bomb them all ? And if not all, how do we choose which ones to bomb ?
Your post makes sense, but I think the questions I have raised need answering too . . . . .
SnowieGeorgie
“There are lots of bad-actors in this world. And more than a few inhumane dictators, too.”
No, only the ones violating W/MD’s and violating the red line we (Barry) drew.
Well, nevermind about all that.