Is Trump Enlisting in the War Party?

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our “America First” president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not want to fight.

Thus far Bashar Assad seems unintimidated. Brushing off the strikes, he has defiantly gone back to bombing the rebels from the same Shayrat air base that the U.S. missiles hit.

Trump “will not stop here,” warned U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Sunday. “If he needs to do more, he will.”

If Trump fails to back up Haley’s threat, the hawks now cheering him on will begin deriding him as “Donald Obama.”

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But if he throbs to the war drums of John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio and orders Syria’s air force destroyed, we could be at war not only with ISIS and al-Qaida, but with Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah.

A Syrian war would consume Trump’s presidency.

Are we ready for that? How would we win such a war without raising a large army and sending it back into the Middle East?

Another problem: Trump’s missile attack was unconstitutional. Assad had not attacked or threatened us, and Congress, which alone has the power to authorize war on Syria, has never done so.

Indeed, Congress denied President Obama that specific authority in 2013.

What was Trump thinking? Here was his strategic rational:

“When you kill innocent children, innocent babies — babies, little babies — with a chemical gas … that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line. … And I will tell you, that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me … my attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much.”

Two days later, Trump was still emoting: “Beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror.”

Now, that gas attack was an atrocity, a war crime, and pictures of its tiny victims are heart-rending. But 400,000 people have died in Syria’s civil war, among them thousands of children and infants.

Have they been killed by Assad’s forces? Surely, but also by U.S., Russian, Israeli and Turkish planes and drones — and by Kurds, Iranians, Hezbollah, al-Qaida, ISIS, U.S.-backed rebels and Shiite militia.

Assad is battling insurgents and jihadists who would slaughter his Alawite brethren and the Christians in Syria just as those Copts were massacred in Egypt on Palm Sunday. Why is Assad more responsible for all the deaths in Syria than those fighting to overthrow and kill him?

Are we certain Assad personally ordered a gas attack on civilians?

For it makes no sense. Why would Assad, who is winning the war and had been told America was no longer demanding his removal, order a nerve gas attack on children, certain to ignite America’s rage, for no military gain?

Like the gas attack in 2013, this has the marks of a false flag operation to stampede America into Syria’s civil war.

And as in most wars, the first shots fired receive the loudest cheers. But if the president has thrown in with the neocons and War Party, and we are plunging back into the Mideast maelstrom, Trump should know that many of those who helped to nominate and elect him — to keep us out of unnecessary wars — may not be standing by him.

We have no vital national interest in Syria’s civil war. It is those doing the fighting who have causes they deem worth dying for.

For ISIS, it is the dream of a caliphate. For al-Qaida, it is about driving the Crusaders out of the Dar al Islam. For the Turks, it is, as always, about the Kurds.

For Assad, this war is about his survival and that of his regime. For Putin, it is about Russia remaining a great power and not losing its last naval base in the Med. For Iran, this is about preserving a land bridge to its Shiite ally Hezbollah. For Hezbollah it is about not being cut off from the Shiite world and isolated in Lebanon.

Because all have vital interests in Syria, all have invested more blood in this conflict than have we. And they are not going to give up their gains or goals in Syria and yield to the Americans without a fight.

And if we go to war in Syria, what would we be fighting for?

A New World Order? Democracy? Separation of mosque and state? Diversity? Free speech for Muslim heretics? LGBT rights?

In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

We are back at that barricade. An after-Easter battle is shaping up in Congress on the same issue: Is the president authorized to take us into war against Assad and his allies inside Syria?

If, after Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, we do not want America in yet another Mideast war, the time to stop it is before the War Party has us already in it. That time is now.

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MMinLamesa
MMinLamesa

I heard Bill Mitchell make some good points debating with Stefen Molynuex about this and he moved me from, WTF Trump to if this turns out to be a one off, there are some positive aspects.

Unfortunately, I know a number of Trump supporters that unquestionably backed him over this even in the face of why in the world would Assad do this after both Trump & Tillerson came out last week and said regime change was off the table?

I believe if you and John McCain are on the same side of a policy, you’d better rethink your position.

Ann Coulter correctly said that Trump needs to get back to the issues that won the election but bet your ass the Deep State will continue with these squirrels. We get oh my, ObamaCare is hard, it’s going to take 3 stages and years….yaddayadda but an unConstitutional bombing run? Coming right up sir.

BB

Steven Bannons worldview is being discussed on CNN right now . Interesting so far.Also with author Neil Howe.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yeah, and everyone knows how true and unbiased CNN is.

I cannot believe how many people let their opinions be formed by CNN propaganda shows.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Buchanan’s right, as usual.

unit472
unit472

While it is always possible the Islamists could have been responsible for the gas attack behind their own lines it is the more convoluted scenario. Their reasoning would have to ASSUME it would lead to an American attack on the Syrian Air Force which was not at all self evident. Besides using gas as a weapon is technically difficult for non state actors because they do not have the quantities and know how to deploy it effectively. Scott Adams yesterday suggested it could have been delivered by artillery shell but Assad’s opponents don’t have batteries of heavy artillery nor the sort of armaments factories to make gas warheads for such artillery as they may have scrounged up. If al Nusra or ISIS had a chemical weapons facility that was hit by Russian or Syrian bombers then produce some evidence of this. Aerial photos will do.

OTOH Assad was known to possess chemical weapon stockpiles of the sort only nation states are reliably believed to control. He was supposed to have turned them over and the Russians to oversee that this was done. Trusting liars and cheaters to do the right thing is not a good idea. Now why would Assad gas his own people. Well they weren’t exactly his own people. They were his political enemies and killing some of them can convince far more that their cause is lost. That Assad is invincible and that no one cares about their fate. At least until those Tomahawk cruise missiles started landing.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Those weapons came from somewhere, either Assad started making them again after Obama had them removed or Russia or another nation (which 0ne?) supplied them.

Sarin, no matter what some people seem to think, is not easy to produce and requires rather difficult to obtain chemicals to do it and some seriously difficult to produce it in a stable form that doesn’t need to be used almost immediately to avoid decomposition.

One of the deadliest gasses, which I’m not going to name, is fairly east to make in an almost primitive manner from a single commonly available ingredient which a good number of us probably have on hand without knowing it. That would be a far better choice for a chemical weapon than Sarin in a clandestine lab, and industrial gasses such as Chlorine have been used fairly regularly by multiple sides in the ME over the past decades.

The more I consider it, the less likely I find it that it was a clandestine Islamic chemical weapons factory that made the gas and used it in a false flag manner, there would be other and better choices to accomplish that nefarious goal. Whoever used it, someone supplied it to them and that someone was most likely either Assad or Russia.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Why would killing 80 people with gas be any more convincing than killing them with conventional bombs? I’ve seen too many bullshit White Helmet Productions, TM videos to immediately believe the propaganda from the Sunni side of the ledger. And any of the “intelligence community” assertions about how we watched the chemical bombs being dropped in real time are worth less than zero, given how the entire Deep State has been itching for the US to topple Assad for years. It hasn’t even been reliably ascertained which chemical weapon was supposedly used. We didn’t investigate and we started lobbing missiles. Even worse, Haley & Tillerson started lipping off about “Assad must go”. Anyone who joins the US military now (or doesn’t try to stop their kid from doing so) is an idiot. I noticed that the Army is running more radio ads. Help us invade Syria and we’ll pay for part of your college if you survive.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Chemical weapon use -Sarin- was also confirmed back in 2013 against Ghouta by Assad’s forces against his opposition and was highly effective for the amount of munitions used, maybe a similar result was expected this time.

Because an attack was ineffective doesn’t mean there was no attack, particularly when a similar attack has been effective in the past.

In any event, my question is still “where did the weapons come from, who made and supplied them?”.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

“confirmed” “by Assad’s forces”. Bullshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMdA4vvL_s

CCRider
CCRider

Of course it’s bullshit. BTW what is it about chemical weapons that’s so much worse than phosphorus bombs that melts flesh off the bone and depleted uranium weapons that will poison the ground for as long as the earth orbits the sun? Both of which are routinely used by God’s people.

Robert Blake
Robert Blake
Anonymous
Anonymous

Confirmed by assads forces,total laying crap.Isis and al Qaeda are American proxy forces, U.S. soldiers willing to kill and die for Islamic extremists. Kissinger was right ,military men are only dumb beasts

BL
BL

News headline today>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Putin Says US Is Preparing To Bomb Syria’s Capital And Russia Has Information That More False Flag Gas Attacks Are Forthcoming.

Drudge: Top of the page

unit472
unit472

No doubt the USAF ( and Israeli Air Force) would love to get Russia to turn on the radars of those S-400 SAMS so they could study them but the Russians are unlikely to reveal the operational characteristics of their most vaunted weapons systems to take down cheap cruise missiles so we can launch all we want and the Russians either have to just take it or tip their hand.

BTW have you seen the size of those Russian S-300 and 400 SAM. They are huge. They’ve got to be almost as expensive as the figher jets they are supposed to shoot down.

Anonymous
Anonymous

They’re expensive to man, maintain, and use as well.

musket
musket

Just punch out two anti-radiation missiles and watch them ride the beam right into the radar receiver element and destroy the system’s capabilities…….and get low on the deck quickly and head for the coast……

Anonymous
Anonymous

From that MSM article: “He did not offer any proof for that assertion.”.

Putin isn’t stupid and this is just another move on the chess board setting up his strategy for future developments.

BL
BL

Nuteryahoo wants Assad out ASAP.

What BiBi wants, BiBi gets !

Guess having Kushner and Ivanka in the WH is handy for him.

Gayle

Someone has recently sat down with Trump and had The Talk. Maybe they discussed his precious grandchildren. Suddenly, war seems like a great idea, so yes, he is joining the War Party.

BL
BL

Well if it were just that easy Gayle, why was the US not taken over long ago as most all presidents have precious children and grandchildren? Does the leader ( And I use the term loosely in Trump’s case) assist in furthering the big one (WW3) which could wipe out a hundred million people to safeguard his grandchildren? All wars are bankster wars and GS is top dog in the WH.

Gayle

BL
My perspective includes the idea that the US was taken over a long time ago, overtly on Nob. 22, 1963. Mr. Kennedy wouldn’t get with the program and either would Bobby.

Dolphin
Dolphin

I thought the modern approach is showing him The Video. They had The Talk with Kennedy, but it didn’t do any good. But there was a silver lining: they could now start filming The Video.

Will
Will

I hate to say it Gayle but that was my first thought. Trump has been flipped and now will do the bidding of the CIA and the warmongers all to keep the military industrial complex funded and killing daily.

There is ample evidence to support the fact that a US funded Jihadist organization was making chlorine gas which was being shipped to Iraq. That site was bombed and the gas released. Those individuals putting water on those victims would be dead if they were touching sarin residue.

It will be interesting to see how Trump behaves in the near future. There is no earthly reason for America to be in the Middle east and dragging us into another pointless war just to enrich the military industrial complex is nonsense.

underfire
underfire

Here is a serious question. Why did Trump bomb Syria? What force of reality was so great as to reverse his seemingly solid prior position.? Does anyone have insight into this?

A few of my picks:

Assad unleashing chemical weapons…unlikely

A desire to throw off the “Russian Collusion” theory…possible

The heady chance to use the worlds biggest hammer…possible

The realization that his vision of prosperity for America, based on hard work and sacrifice is DOA, and on the contrary, half the country is ready to lynch him for the threat he is to their free shit. So he better get on with the National Business.. that of maintaining the dollar as world reserve currency. And appeasing the Saudis and their desire for a pipeline through Syria is a good place to start. ……………………….not unlikely.

Thoughts?

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

He actually thinks that the generals of 2017 are like Patton & Eisenhower. They’re not. They’re politicians who have to get approved by congress for promotions. My uncle reached 4 stars in the US Army. Almost became chairman of the Joint Chiefs but was beaten out by Colin Powell. He wasn’t an idiot, but the things he didn’t know would shock you. “Mad Dog” and McMasters are trying to convince Trump to go to war. They’re generals. They’re in the war business. It’s what they do.

kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable

What turned Trump into an apparent warmonger..

Obvious that it was not a short-term event like the False Flag gas attack. BTW, M.Savage guessed it was Phosgene, something where you wouldn’t die by touching victims with bare hands.

Could have been something the Intelligence Agencies showed him. I veer to that end except I and Trump know they lie, are deceptive, and just can’t be trusted.

It has something to do with Israel; and that would provide a background emotional content for Ivanka. Blood is thicker than water. Trump has his kids helping him due to the Trust factor, but it is also a negative due to their influence.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Sounds like phosgene was the main chemical weapon in WWI. Even Arabs can probably make it themselves by now.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Chlorine was probably the largest one used in terms of quantity with phosgene also used, but Mustard gas was the most widely and common one used.

Anyone can make phosgene, doing it without killing yourself and your neighborhood would be the hard part followed by developing a viable means of using it where you wanted it used.

Miles Long
Miles Long

Phosgene is easy. Find some R12 refrigerant, spray it into your running car’s intake & stay away from the tailpipe. Some trainee was looking for an AC leak a few years ago & almost killed everyone in the shop. I’m sure the gubmint stuff is deadlier, but this was real nasty & fast acting. The tailpipe side of the shop was all down before anybody knew what was happening.

BL
BL

KoKo- What will you say if Putin’s intel is correct and the US bombs the shit out of the Syrian capital, who wins the “Blame Game” at that point? At what point do you catch on? There are zionists calling the shots, spare me the blood is thicker than water.

kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable

Who wins the Blame Game – U.S.
There are Zionists calling the shots – I agree.

On my original comment, the last para started with:
“It has something to do with Israel..”

Articles of Confederation

I campaigned for Ol’ Patty back in 1992 I guess it was. Glad I did it then, and now that I’m older, it makes even more sense today to support what he opines.

PlatoPlubius

I think this news deserves a thread of its own! I wonder what Trump and Xi really agreed upon in their 100 day economic plan

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-10/stocks-slide-below-airstrikes-support-amid-russia-china-chatter

South Korean Paper Reports China Has Deployed 150,000 Troops To North Korea Border

by Tyler Durden
Apr 10, 2017 5:52 PM
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While the catalyst is unclear, it appears the market dropped as headlines of further sanctions against Russia appeared and reports of China deploying 150,000 troops to its North Korea border.
According to Korean news agency Chosun, the “Chinese army has deployed about 150,000 troops to the North Korean border in two groups to prepare for unforeseen circumstances.” The reason: the prospect of “military options”, such as preemptive attacks on North Korea, like the one the United States launched on Syria

unit472
unit472

What did Trump and Xi agree on? That Putin is irrelevant.

PlatoPlubius

Consider this:
1) Saturday is a big day for North Korea!

“The meeting comes days before North Korea celebrates the April 15 birthday of deceased leader Kim Il Sung, Kim’s grandfather — amid speculation that Pyongyang will mark the occasion with by testing missiles or possibly a nuclear device.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/10/politics/us-aircraft-carrier-carl-vinson-north-korea-strike-capabilities/

2) The USS Carl Vinson, a ship that has been used in countless operations over the past few years, should be there by then.
3) Easter is Sunday (families will be gathered together all around the world)
4)Stock Market is due for a correction
5)South Korean election is next month
6)Kim’s half-brother assassinated last month
7)China moves 150,000 troops to N. Korean border after Xi and Trump meet and establish a supposed 100 day economic plan the day near-60 Tomahawk missiles rained down at a Syrian/Russian Airbase!
8)VIX is going crazy!!

AC
AC

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First:

http://www.oil-price.net/en/articles/oil-prices-and-syrian-civil-war.php
and
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/oil-gas-war-over-syria-4-maps

Second:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_gas_field
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamar_gas_field
and
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-seeks-salvation-in-gas-pocket-3-miles-beneath-the-sea/

Third:

http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/understandji-3.htm

So, gas is important here, it’s just not sarin.

But, hey, ‘think of the children,’ is apparently more triggering than selling a war over natural gas pipelines, access to the European natural gas market, and Holy Profits for Israel.

PlatoPlubius
PlatoPlubius

Forgot to mention this:
China rejects shipments of N. Korean coal that have been sitting in port. Ships are to return to N. Korea….the timing of all this is bizarre and reeks! Keep an eye on these highly flammable ships that will be returning to port in Nampo, North Korea.
https://www.rt.com/business/384334-north-korea-china-coal/

Diogenes
Diogenes

Wake up! It was a false flag! Actors, no gas, no problems. Research Sandy Hook and Boston Bombing for more fake bullshitte.

Purplefrog
Purplefrog

So was the missile “attack.” That’s the nice thing about using cruise missiles – “I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth I know not where.” I think the Trumper is playing the neocons.

Diogenes
Diogenes

Everything on Talmud Vision is fake!

4th Turner

WAR PRESIDENT TRUMP NEEDS TO IMMEDIATELY DO THIS:

ACTIVATE INTO THE ARMED FORCES TO SERVE IN IDLIB, SYRIA THE FOLLOWING

__ JOHN “MCSTAIN” MCCAIN
__ LINDSEY “GAY-HAM” GRAHAM
__ MARCO “FOAMIO” RUBIO
__ “DARLING” NIKKI HALEY
__ “CHUCKY” SCHUMER
__ “SAN FRAN NAN” PELOSI
__ “NOT NICE” SUSAN RICE
__ BARRY “SOETERO” OBAMA
__ H.R. “PUFF-N-STUFF” McMASTER
__ “DON’T BETRAY-US” PATRAEUS

SUIT THEM UP, THEN AIRDROP THEM IN PLACE WITH THEIR OWN CACHE OF WEAPONS !!!

Marc
Marc

Did you ever wonder why Trump’s $100 million missile attack was so flaccid in terms of damage caused? http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/09/trump-humilated-syria-shoots-down-34-of-59-cruise-missiles-russia-to-upgrade-system-soon/

Dolphin
Dolphin

The other theory is that these people are all just bozos and don’t have a clue what they’re doing.

Dennis Roe
Dennis Roe

You’re right Gayle. America died that day in Dallas. We’re in Ameriprentice, a reality show about a once great country turned into a decrepit, immoral and bankrupt empire. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

mangledman
mangledman

Where is a Swamp Fox when you need one. Does this look like it’s all part of the script?? Doesn’t Ivanka’s RHETORIC make this seem so much more deplorable? The DON talking about those poor children, drags in softhearted leftists watching MSM, while infuriating those deplorables that watched him put the CIA in charge of drone strikes 3 weeks ago. Does anyone else feel a love-hate relationship growing here. How many snowflakes will consider war to save those poor little children. How old is, and how long has the deep state been at this. Who thinks they can’t groom and hire the best actors?? Remember “o” ousting all our high ranking military members. Low moral, poor character in their place that can be corrupted, and we could be in a world of hurt. Welcome back my friends, the show must go on.

EternalVigilanc3
EternalVigilanc3

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catfish
catfish

Bolivians are more honourable than the yanks

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