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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 07:14 PM Apr 2017

White House warns of potential US 'red line' over Syria barrel bomb attacks

Source: The Guardian

The Trump administration on Monday signalled much broader grounds for future military intervention in Syria, suggesting it might retaliate against the Assad regime for barrel bomb attacks.

On the eve of a critical visit to Moscow at a time of high US-Russian tensions over Syria, the US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, appeared to go even further, saying his country would come to the defence of innocent civilians “anywhere in the world”.

The administration had initially stressed strictly limited objectives for a cruise missile strike last week on a Syrian air force base, saying it was intended to deter the repeat of a chemical attack on Tuesday against civilians and that the focus of US efforts in Syria remains combating the Islamic State (Isis).

On Monday, however, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, widened the criteria for retaliation. “When you watch babies and children being gassed, and suffer under barrel bombs, you are instantaneously moved to action,” he said. “I think this president’s made it very clear that if those actions were to continue, further action will definitely be considered by the United States.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/syria-top-of-agenda-as-g7-foreign-ministers-meet-in-italy



Julian Borger and David Smith in Washington, Heather Stewart in London and Spencer Ackerman in New York
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bdamomma

(63,658 posts)
2. They can say
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 07:23 PM
Apr 2017

whatever they want, but does anyone hear the ban being called off??? They don't care about the gassing of Syrians.

 

Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts)
3. "Babies and children" oh fuck off with your talking points
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 07:38 PM
Apr 2017

Nobody really seems to care anymore that a US marine shot a little girl in the neck not two months ago.

Strelnikov_

(7,772 posts)
4. Looks like His Orange Eminence has discovered the benefit bombing brown people has . . .
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 08:20 PM
Apr 2017

on his poll numbers and in controlling the new cycle.

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
5. So much for multiple branches of government
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 08:23 PM
Apr 2017

45 sees his opportunity to set his little test precedent in stone...

If these new "red line" criteria for Executive Branch Only Decisions to use military force --
are not promptly met with a very clear & definite Brick Wall ..
letting donnie know in no uncertain terms that there is a specific established Protocol /Process for acquiring congressional approval BEFORE authorizing such attacks...
Then the precedent will be permanently set...
and anytime 45 wants to seek revenge or just doesn't get his way...
some new "Red-Line" criteria will be cited, after the fact, to justify his surprise attacks ...

progree

(10,864 posts)
7. White House walks back suggestion US may respond to additional barrel bombs in Syria, but...
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 08:58 PM
Apr 2017
https://gma.yahoo.com/spicer-stops-short-calling-assad-war-criminal-192058423--abc-news-topstories.html
White House walks back suggestion US may respond to additional barrel bombs in Syria, GMA, 4/10/17

The White House is walking back a suggestion from press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday that President Donald Trump may take more military action in Syria in response to additional barrel bombings of civilians.

“The answer is, if you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb into innocent people, I think you will see a response from this president,” Spicer told reporters this afternoon. “Make no mistake: he will act.”

But a White House aide told ABC News today that "nothing has changed in our posture."

"The president retains the option to act in Syria against the Assad regime whenever it is in the national interest, as was determined following that government's use of chemical weapons against its own citizens," the White House aide said.

Kablooie

(18,572 posts)
9. Trump has found his way to start the war that will keep him in power.
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 03:21 AM
Apr 2017

This is what I was afraid of. He will start wars so Congress can't get rid of him. It will override any possibility of the Russian connections causing impeachment.

Hold on to your seats. It's going to get bumpy and somewhere along the track the wheels are likely to fall off of the car.

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