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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMattis warns Trump about Syria risks ☹️🔫
Washington (CNN)Top military officials, including Defense Secretary James Mattis, warned President Donald Trump during an afternoon meeting Thursday that he risks escalating US involvement in Syria if he goes forward with the type of aggressive bombing campaign he has pressed for over the past week, according to US and western officials briefed on the conversation.
Trump has pushed military leaders to develop plans for a sustained assault on Syrian regime targets in response to last weekend's chemical attack, the officials said. But Mattis and other members of the President's national security team cautioned Trump during the meeting that such a strategy could pull the US into direct conflict with Russia and Iran.
The resistance has upset Trump, who wanted to take quick action and feels like the options being presented to him don't go far enough, according to the officials.
Nevertheless, there is a view among Trump's national security team that the President's tweets earlier this week -- including one threatening US missiles "will be coming, nice and new and 'smart' " -- forced their hand and made some type of strikes inevitable. But there is an effort to calibrate the response, even as Trump is pressing his team to act.
Trump has pushed military leaders to develop plans for a sustained assault on Syrian regime targets in response to last weekend's chemical attack, the officials said. But Mattis and other members of the President's national security team cautioned Trump during the meeting that such a strategy could pull the US into direct conflict with Russia and Iran.
The resistance has upset Trump, who wanted to take quick action and feels like the options being presented to him don't go far enough, according to the officials.
Nevertheless, there is a view among Trump's national security team that the President's tweets earlier this week -- including one threatening US missiles "will be coming, nice and new and 'smart' " -- forced their hand and made some type of strikes inevitable. But there is an effort to calibrate the response, even as Trump is pressing his team to act.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/trump-mattis-syria-policy/index.html
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spanone
Apr 2018
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Rump doesnt care at all about the results of bombing, as long as he distracts
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,134 posts)1. Rump doesnt care at all about the results of bombing, as long as he distracts
from his crimes and treason.
At all, nada, nothing. He could kill ten thousand children, nada, nothing.
C_U_L8R
(45,035 posts)2. Trump is clueless
All he cares about is his image... and staying out of jail
...and uninterested in learning. flim-flam man.
RainCaster
(10,952 posts)4. He knows exactly what he is doing- distract from the pee tapes!
It's all fake news
Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)5. Drumpf is just trying to change the subject.
He's trying to divert attention from his Russia problem.....and it is a problem.
BootinUp
(47,211 posts)6. This mfer would drop nukes if it weren't for some sane people left there. nt