can't believe people ITT actually think the USA/UK/France actually give a fuk about some chemical attack. This is a planned invasion for territory and profit. Nothing more

here u go bbyhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...of-strike-grow

no halliburton no care

I can confirm.

Posting from toaster oven while hiding in bunker 100ft below.

This. If Russia shoots down one of those missiles, prepare yourselves.

strong unaware

Haliburton is their sister company.

Lmaoooo enjoy your multi-trillion dollar Iraq 2.0 fellas, we're sitting this one out

Canadian here.

Can Trump supporters fill me in on this?

Wasn't a big running point during his campaign the fact that he said he wouldn't involve the USA in foreign conflicts?


Are his supporters outraged?


Genuinely trying to understand a trump supporters view on this... no hate.

The UK is conducting strikes as well .

No chit

Check again Indian brah

this. also inb4 (possibly during) WWIII

is there any proof whatsoever assad launched the gas?

I look forward to having more life wisdom bestowed on me by a 20 year old.

No we're not unfortunately. I am so mad right now.

He's right.

Tell us more sis, you're so #woke.

Don't think he's that stupid. Why would he ever possibly risk US intervention?

Obviously fake, CIA operation, etc to get US involved

USA USA USA USA!!

Actually watched this last night.

apparently youre not watching the news.

Prove me wrong. You can throw around my age all you want but you still won't be able to prove me wrong.

Why are you so butthurt about me btw?

Enough for France to join in on the Air Strikes if that tells you anything.

There is major conflicts on a world scale every hundred-ish years. Wipes out the bad blood don't act like this is something new, humans have been warring since we evolved from Apes.

USA USA USA

Wish I could join the military.

time to get gender reassignment surgery

No.

By now, you should realize that many of trump's supporters are more loyal than they are logical. If he goes back on his promises? That's okay because "MAGA".

Trump's entire campaign is an excellent example of what brainwashing does to people. If you expose people to an idea repeatedly, no matter how much they disagree with it, they will eventually believe it. Shooting down logical arguments with "Throw hillary in prison" and "MAGA" and "build the wall", over and over again eventually brainwashes people.

Look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and now Syria. What more proof do you need? It's all a farce

I still remember the night America invaded Iraq.

To all those asking why Trump is doing this, I graduated with a degree in Political Science two years early and studied it quite a bit. Keeping the fight over there is better than letting the Syrian governments battle for control against multiple terrorist/rebel groups. It raises moral and ethical questions of how people should be able to live. Here is a paper I wrote regarding terrorism and the conflicts in Syria if you would be interested.

This paper will address the Syrian Civil War in terms of transnational terrorism, with a focus on economic factors. Ethnic conflict is driven by economic inequalities. This paper has two sections. First, the paper will briefly define transnational terrorism. Second, the paper will briefly analyze how economic issues and transnational terrorism contributed to the splintering of Syria. As stated by Basuchoudhary and Shughart (2010, 81), “terrorism is less likely to originate in countries where people have greater freedom to improve their lots in life”.
Transnational terrorism refers to terrorist actions originating in one country, reaching beyond a national boundary, and being executed in another country. Terrorist actions transcend traditional political borders and may involve several nations. This type of terrorism has become a significant global concern within the last few decades. Transnational terrorism is frequently conducted by terrorist groups not sponsored by a specific country, and often recruited from many countries. This type of terrorist network can operate at a local to global level, affecting economic and political foundations of countries. These networks often work with other terrorist networks towards a common goal, often using social media to recruit individuals and promote ideological platforms. Although transnational terrorist events often receive international spotlight, domestic terrorism has been shown to outpace it by nine times (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 70). Terrorists will often strike “softer” targets overseas versus conducting operations against the “hard” targets within a country. Many transnational terrorist attacks are actually based on ethnic conflicts in other countries. Recent terrorist events have been conducted against U.S. and Western interests across the globe. Basuchoudhary and Shughart (2010, 76) stated, “heightened ethnic tensions in a country generally increase the number of transnational terrorist attacks by citizens of that country”.
The current tumultuous situation in Syria is complicated, involving multiple countries, military organizations, and religious sects. Within the last several years, Syria has been a national battleground between an increasingly large number of internal and external entities. The Syrian civil war began after the Arab Spring uprising when the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad violently halted peaceful protests to remove him (Phillips, 2015, 359). These actions incited the development of armed groups and new military forces by the regime. Various groups to include the Kurds, Sunnis, and radical opposition groups became involved in the conflict. It escalated into ongoing armed conflict throughout the country and across borders.
Many factors, including structural, economic, socio-cultural, and political, have impacted the conflict. When examined according to the theory proffered by Basuchoudhary and Shughart, economics plays a key role in understanding some underlying causes of the crisis. They found a strong correlation between transnational terrorism and economic factors (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 66). Specifically, their results showed a lack of quality economic institutions and economic mobility increases terrorism (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 85). Basuchoudhary and Shughart (2010, 85) found “economic freedoms lessen the tendency for ethnic tensions to spawn transnational terrorism over the entire sample, both before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall”. Syria underwent significant economic fallout from several events, with 2005 proving to be a critical year (Phillips, 2015, 367). In response to U. S. sanctions, Assad put forth a “social market economy” plan, which created numerous financial problems. In 2005, major economic reforms were forced through by the President’s regime, as the Syrian economy was not providing enough jobs for the growing population and the country’s oil reserves were shrinking (Phillips, 2015, 366). Adding to this situation was a major drought experienced from 2006-2010, affecting farmers in rural areas and causing hundreds of thousands of people to relocate to urban areas, settling in slums outside Syrian cities (Phillips, 2015, 367). The reforms also cut budgets across social institutions, the army, and charitable services (Phillips, 2015, 367). These problems within the Syrian economy created economic instability across the entire country. The chances of civil war occurring are diminished if income growth rises (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 69). However, these combined financial situations support the argument that transnational terrorism is more prevalent when individuals experience limited economic freedoms (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 66).
The economic issues within Syria are inexorably interwoven with various ethnic and political groups operating within and outside its’ borders. Ethnic polarization and fractionalization are factors which promote conflict and terrorism (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 72). Assad’s reforms created resentment and tensions between several key factions of the population. The country is comprised of 12% Alawi, 64% Sunni Arab, 9% Christian, 3% Druze, 1% Shia, and 10% Kurdish, further divided by income and political ideology (Phillips, 2015, 357). Although Assad originally appointed Sunni allies into key government positions, he later removed them, cementing a regime dominated by the Alawi. The economic reforms provided financial advantages to the Alawi regime elites, while key subsidies were cut for ordinary Syrians (Phillips, 2015, 367). Tribal and religious leaders took on more critical roles, which weakened state-society bonds and strengthened sect-society connections (Phillips, 2015, 368). Many of the crises which became the foundation for sectarian resentment and conflict were primarily economic and not ethnic-driven (Phillips, 2015, 367). Rebel looting of wealthy areas, stealing houses and redistributing them, and income inequality demonstrate the importance of economic elements influencing the civil war. Economic benefits, motivation, and opportunism caused divisions along economic versus sectarian lines (Phillips, 2015, 360).
The economic inequality which underlay and fomented the Syrian crisis had been exacerbated by external nations and their influence on the civil war. Various Syrian factions received international intervention in terms of resources, equipment, and military armed forces. Millions of dollars in cash and arms made militia groups compete for funds (Phillips, 2015, 370). This is yet another example of economic means driving the undercurrent of the war. Additionally, situations in other countries such as Iraq and Iran increased ideological and religious tensions. In order to weaken the U.S. in Iraq, Assad allowed and supported Sunni jihadist fighters to cross over the Syrian border from Iraq (Phillips, 2015, 368). Extreme violence and destruction occurred as more fighting groups, particularly the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) became a powerful presence after crossing the Syrian border from Iraq. As the situation deteriorated within Syria, ISIS was able to gain a dangerous and strong following from various groups of Syrians citizens (Phillips, 2015, 369). ISIS is a prime example of how transnational terrorism has its origin in ethnic conflicts in another country (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 70). Furthermore, inter-group conflicts can escalate into transnational terrorist events (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 66).
Given that transnational terrorism is associated with economic factors, policies geared toward decreasing terrorism through political versus economic avenues could be useless. As concluded by Basuchoudhary and Shughart (2010, 83), “Political solutions to terrorism arising from ethnic tensions therefore may be unworkable since the root cause of terrorism seems to lie in poor economic institutions”. The concept of replacing current political remedies with those promoting more economic changes may disrupt the nexus between ethnic conflict and terrorism.
The complicated situation in Syria has grown from both economic disparity and transnational terrorism by many actors.

There is nothing to fill, they are retarded just like the average american who would rather pick sides than use logic.. It's all the same chit, I have a feeling that even if Bernie Sanders won this chit would still be happening..