U.S. strikes Syrian military airfield

dhbanes wrote: post #3

Previous discussion on a post that seems to have been removed from the front page for some reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056254 Edit: removed hash

I thought we were done with turning 90% of HN comments into "is this politics or not" experiments...

Re: U.S. strikes Syrian military airfield

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Fri, Apr 07, 2017, 2:55 AM UTC

Hypothesis: this is a message to Xi and North Korea. Syria is a consequence-free zone. Unless we depose Assad and commit to nation building, this has limited non-humanitarian consequence. Bonus: decisive action right after McMasters reclaims Bannon's NSC seat.

Re: U.S. strikes Syrian military airfield

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Post by brkjmp » Fri, Apr 07, 2017, 2:57 AM UTC

Al Jazeera coverage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJtWREOXHA

Re: U.S. strikes Syrian military airfield

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Post by gragas » Fri, Apr 07, 2017, 2:59 AM UTC

Here's the official White House video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sVp3yFNEYQ

Re: U.S. strikes Syrian military airfield

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Post by jaboutboul » Fri, Apr 07, 2017, 3:00 AM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #6

Hypothesis: this is a message to Xi and North Korea. Syria is a consequence-free zone. Unless we depose Assad and commit to nation building, this has limited non-humanitarian consequence. Bonus: decisive action right after McMasters reclaims Bannon's NSC seat.

Or it could be a message to Assad to stop using nerve gas. Just a wild guess.

Re: U.S. strikes Syrian military airfield

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Post by nodesocket » Fri, Apr 07, 2017, 3:02 AM UTC

Interested to see how the market reacts to Trumps first and very justified use of military force.