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  1. Worm
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    Apr 6, 2017
    This is kind of scary. Hopefully Kendall Jenner can think of something to smooth this situation over
     
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  2. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Apr 6, 2017
    There was never a US President in your lifetime that didn't drop 10,000s of bombs on other countries.
     
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  3. Goku187
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    Goku187

    Apr 7, 2017
    @Michael Myers it's not as simple as "people bitching" - this is a complicated issue and lives are at stake

    I'm really grappling with what I think of this. There is a part of me that thinks maybe on its face, as an isolated incident, it was a good move? (I put a question mark there for a reason, I'm conflicted here.) Assad is a monster and there's something to be said about a show of force to repudiate what he's done and show him it isn't acceptable to the international community. Obama never knew how to handle Syria, and it showed. But broadly, I'm worried about this being a slippery slope into something bigger. It seems to hint that Trump will want to stick his nose in places they don't necessarily belong, which is....troubling, to say the least. He didn't exactly run as an interventionist, but how else do you label this but interventionist?

    But beyond the obvious and inevitable contradictions from Trump himself, let's think about the precedent this sets and what happens next. How does Russia ultimately react to this? Iran? What does it mean down the road, when Assad decides he wants to do something like this again? Trump will turn this into a d-ck measuring contest in a heartbeat, whether it's in our national interest or not. I won't pretend to be a seasoned expert on foreign policy - my worry is that Trump isn't either, and he's going to be more concerned with looking like a Broad Shouldered Leader (trademark Mike Pence 2016) than the soundness of the policy.

    I also personally find it a bit concerning that he didn't go to Congress for approval (apparently this is very very close to the strike Obama intended to take several years back before failing to get Congressional authorization)....again, not so much for this isolated strike, but for what it suggests about what he will do down the road. It isn't hard to imagine waking up one morning to find out he bombed North Korea and Paul Ryan just found out about it 5 minutes before I did. Doesn't exactly help me sleep at night.
     
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  4. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Apr 6, 2017
    Just to refresh your guys memory:

     
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  5. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Apr 6, 2017
    he launched a war from his f---ing country club
     
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  6. mrtheiphonekid
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    mrtheiphonekid

    Apr 6, 2017
    america back at it policing the world again

    we all gonna die its lit
     
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  7. Alchemist34
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    Alchemist34 DO MY HEAD

    Apr 7, 2017
    Logically speaking if paulye agree with me that means I'm wrong

    I guess Assad did use chemical weapons to scare his people then
     
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  8. reservoirGod
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    Apr 6, 2017
    We have the dumbest and most impulsive person we have ever had as commanander n' chief. Anything is possible now.
     
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  9. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Apr 6, 2017
    This action is 100% justified. Assad using chemical weapons against his own people is disgusting and should not go unpunished. The thing is, action should have been taken sooner to prevent said chemical attack.

     
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  10. TheDeathOfPablo
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    Apr 6, 2017
    If the world goes into a nuclear war, Imma need a Pepsi to shield me from the missiles
     
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  11. Proto
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    Proto drippin so pretty

    Apr 6, 2017
    why do we have to be the police of the world
     
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  12. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Apr 6, 2017
    The Alt-Right is having trouble with this.


    In their minds everything is a conspiracy between Hillary, Obama and George Soros... And if they just s--- Trump and Putin's d-ck the world will be at peace and they'll become millionaire coal miners.
     
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  13. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Apr 6, 2017
    I'm surprised you don't think this is a hoax.
     
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  14. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Apr 6, 2017
    I wish you were one of them.
     
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  15. Charlie Work
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    Apr 6, 2017
    :HomeAlone:
     
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  16. Bourbon Ben
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    Bourbon Ben Mad pooper

    Apr 6, 2017
    sry that im not 13 and it actually affects me unlike u
     
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  17. Bourbon Ben
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    Bourbon Ben Mad pooper

    Apr 6, 2017
    see u in canada
     
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  18. Alchemist34
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    Alchemist34 DO MY HEAD

    Apr 7, 2017
    Micro penis jokes are the forum equivalent of chemical weapons u just don't use them
     
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  19. Alchemist34
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    Alchemist34 DO MY HEAD

    Apr 7, 2017
    Yeah this doesn't mean the U.S is suddenly joining the war against the Syrian government. This wouldn't have happened if chemical weapons weren't used. I don't think the U.S will keep striking the Syrian millitary unless chemical weapons are used again.

    Russia is just talking s--- out of principle. They have to officially condem the bombing of the airfield.
     
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  20. Flacko
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    Apr 7, 2017
    Nice insult dude!
     
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