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Behind the Headlines: Trump's Hit and Run in Syria - Playing the Deep State Game

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Sun, 09 Apr 2017 16:00 UTC

"Assad can stay." "Syrians must determine their future." St. Petersburg bombed. Chemical attack in Syria. "Assad must go." "We must determine Syrians' future." Oh, what a difference a day makes. In a repeat of 2013, a trumped up jihadi production special of chemical weapons blamed on Assad has pushed Trump to respond in a way that even Obama didn't. According to CNN, he finally "became president" this week when he ordered the U.S. military to launch 29 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airbase. War hawks on the left and right rejoiced. America's allies rejoiced. Israel wept tears of joy. And yet...

Over half the missiles missed their targets (for reasons no one knows at this time). The base was practically empty. The damage was insignificant. Russia closed down the deconfliction phone lines and is now beefing up air defense in Syria. In other words, the event seems to have been more spectacle than substance. The Trump administration is reserving the right to do it again, but will they really risk putting Russia's missile defenses to the test? Or has Trump's attack had the paradoxical effect of making a future attack even less likely?

Today on Behind the Headlines we'll go behind the Trump-lines get to the bottom of the latest episode of Trump Being Trump. Prepare to laugh, cry, be horrified, and disturbingly entertained. It's never a dull day in Trumpland.

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gdpetti · 2017-04-10T01:12:58Z

Perhaps now's a good time to start releasing some of that sat coverage for various events over the years?

Always best to utilize your assets while you can and while they remain assets and not worthless bits of media.

Americans and Western audiences as a whole react best to such media and not print, talk and such content, we are a visual type.

hobnob · 2017-04-10T03:11:31Z

Very thorough discussion.

There are more than enough opportunities for detached perspectives, aren't there? Such as every time his administration is not calling for more interventions based on false pretexts, or based on defective reasoning coming from ~~defective machines~~ neocons like Graham and Haley.

Ruth · 2017-04-10T10:07:42Z

There was something that came up on sbs tv here, and that was a disagreement between 2 of Trumps closest advisers over the Syrian attack airfield. That being Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

It looks to me that Steve Bannon thinks that the focus of the Trump administration should be "America First". Whilst Jared Kushner, on the other hand is pushing Trump to be more involved in international events - and probably is also a stalwart supporter of Israel too. There's no doubt that the 'Assad must go' sentiment is a really big favorite with Israel as well as any neocons and it is just what they want.

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Niall · 2017-04-10T12:26:04Z

Ruth Yep, that's the crux of it. Trump originally wanted to prioritize domestic interests, but he's probably learning from his economic-military advisors just how fundamentally reliant the country's domestic economic interests are on overseas plundering. It's probably only dawning on him that his isolationist plans require significantly downscaling the country's GDP. He would have to accept America undergoing effective bankruptcy under his watch. Only then could it rebuild. And if he thinks America can stay first globally and be 'first' in terms of being rebuilt, he's very much mistaken.

nedlud · 2017-04-10T13:00:04Z

SAME OLD SHIT

I don't know whether you need to add the word 'deep' to the mix, when describing current evil actions and events, attributable to such-and-such and so-and-so and on-and-on and forever-and-ever.

Shit-is-shit.

Government-is-government.

Bad-is-bad.

signed,

I-told-you-so

hobnob · 2017-04-10T18:52:44Z

nedlud You know, last night, I had a dream that I was running away from a bunch of demons (one of them a gigantic hamster). Then I stuck something in a human-looking demon's head.

So it calmly asked, "Wait, were you serious about that?"

Then Have You Ever Seen the Rain started playing.

hobnob · 2017-04-11T04:46:29Z

hobnyeba Just a little light-hearted humor to break the ice a little, if there were any icy feelings.

Niall · 2017-04-11T19:19:26Z

nedlud That's just nedlud saying what's the point in even discussing anything.

Anna1 · 2017-04-11T08:05:40Z

What a strange screen shot to use as the backdrop to this photo. Deep state dark lord imagery!!!!

Bar Kochba · 2017-04-11T12:43:15Z

"The damage was insignificant."

Nine civilians, four of which were children, died (we are told) from the missile strike.

At what point is the damage considered "significant" when measured with human lives?

Niall · 2017-04-11T19:20:45Z

Bar Kochba Not sure really. It probably depends on who you ask. 1.5 million dead Iraqis didn't register as "significant" in the British media, while 4 or 5 Londoners killed by a speeding car went down as a "major terror attack."

Bar Kochba · 2017-04-11T21:19:13Z

I see what you are implying with your examples and how the media, both mainstream and "alt," phrase statistics to push a specific agenda.

This is why I drew attention to that statement; sott.net chose the phrase, "the damage was insignificant" rather than provide the reported number (9 civilians, 4 of which were children) and allowing the reader to decide if the damage was insignificant or significant.

If this was an "opinion" piece, then I can understand why that phrase was used to support sott.net's opinion.

However, if this article is being pushed as"objective news," then that's definitely a misnomer; at least for this particular article.

Anna1 · 2017-04-11T21:32:04Z

Niall This glaringly obvious fact troubles me too. The disproportionate response to horror seems to have something to do with remoteness: out of sight out of mind.

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