Syria: Deadly U.S. attack 'serious aggression'

kirshna, you don't seem to care about the after-effects...think it through....I would have thought that you'd already done that one....

atm1963

We have consulted Syria for a long, long,time. Diplomacy did not work. Syria is a terrorist supporting state and openly allows their territory to be used to launch attacks against US forces in Iraq and Iraqi civilians.

So what do you think we should have done?

artie, it's still considered an act of war...innocents die....think it through...if you're on top of these guys, like, supposedly we were, why not just catch tham at the border?  You know where they're coming in, you have night @!$%#ing vision, for cryin' out loud....catch 'em red-handed, without the women and children gitting into the mix....think it through... you got a problem with that???? it's ignorant...can't convince me otherwise...

Exactly love trust. We can catch them after the borders are crossed.
 We are only going to piss them off more as we expand into more soveign territory, which will be the cause of more l terror attacks. Iraq never had a suicide bombing until US troops marched in. The whole reason 9-11 happened was because of our messed up foreign policies included the CIA support to install the Shaw of Iran, backing up Bin Laden to defeat the Russians, and allying with Sadam Hussein to go after Iran to name a few.
If we followed the wisdom of George Washington with him saying not to get entangled in foreign alliances, we would not have been caught up in this mess.  

Syria is a sovereign nation. Syria is allowing (and supporting) the establishment of transit facilities near its border for the purpose of enabling combatants to enter Iraq and perform acts of war.

You need to understand that this is an act of war by Syria against Iraq (primary) and the US (Secondary). The US is totally within it rights to destroy these facilities with or without the permission of Syria.

The fact that there may have been innocent civilians in an active military target puts them in harms way. It is a fact of war.

Regarding which tactics to use (hit the target in Syria or at the border) it is obvious based on logistics, manpower, terrain, etc. etc. which way to go. Perhaps a course or two at the war college would convince you otherwise.

No, I do not need any courses in war college.
I believe if the US was not so much in the war mode with their empire building, we would not need a bailout and inflate out economy with Federal Reserve. As a result, we would have a much more sound defense taking care of our own on the home front.
 Anyway, congressman Ron Paul got more donars from military people than any other presidential candidate and he is anti-interventionist, but pro-defense.

krishna, in your comment;

They've hated the U.S. before that airstrike--- they will undoubtedly continue to hate the U.S. afterwards.

I think you're more comfortable, making and keeping enemies...keeps it simple for you, doesn't it???   Ever wonder....oh...sorry... don't want to tempt you into thinking....

...think about it....

....provocateurs of war...the news of another attack into a soverign nation is becoming a habit....I'll not be a willful enabler, in any way to such strategies...

  Kirshna, you seem to find this news as good, without any repurcussions...I find it to be just another act of aggression, in which innocent civilians are killed as well, and they're given no value in your formula for fighting the war on terror.  It is a strategic mistake.  Let's not diminish into oblivion our hopes of making allies, where there are an estimated million or so disenfranchised Iraqis....Syria isn't the enemy of these disenfranchised Iraqis...Your dismissal of the idea that Syria has the potential to be an ally really dooms them to no other course but to resist...to defend itself.  Making enemies, some people do it all the time...some countries do it all the time....fear rules their judgments...I say quit with the 'cornering' of people....it makes for the greater enumeration of mortal enemies....

1.5 million Iraqis escaped the mismanaged 'war on terror'....are they not victims of Paul Bremmer's debathification policy???? ....and, then, disbanding the Iraqi military...those were all just great moves, that caused no collateral damage, I suppose...

.... everything is just so very screwed up, and our so-called leaders continue on with their 'more of the same' reactive policies, that started the whole mess to begin with.....We need conciliation...we don't need tens of thousands of Syrians protesting our ignorant aggressions into soverign soil....hearts and minds, my ass.....

krishna, in your comment;

"A newborn baby was one of at least 14 children and adults killed when a suicide bomber detonated a lorry laden with explosives close to a primary school in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk yesterday."

....That really sucks....war kills more innocents...terror is, and was, alive and well in the region...that really sucks....two wrongs don't make a right....I can only hope somebody comes along with the dialogue of peace, and forgiveness, for, surely these people are tired of living within this terrible predicament..

   ..We are but armchair warriors for our causes, never subject to actually being drawn into the real ignorance that war imposes.  It all depends upon where you are when all hell breaks out, and mortal danger imposes itself upon your psyche.....forgiveness must be reborn at every battlefield, and forgiveness must prevail....so many of the afflicted are finding themselves unwilling to revisit that option...I can see that from where I sit..

But even if there's major shift in government and our policies change-- I fear the jihadis will not change their evil ways.

(it'shard for us to understand-- we tend to project out values on others. But they really believe this. Human life is less improtant to many of them than their pride.

Their loss of family...friends is cause for mortal enemies...you'll be my enemy for life, should your interests bulldoze down my family.... I will be looking for you, to step into another conflict that is none of your buisness.  I can't help but see that element, following a natural progression, where made enemies is a likely outcome of poor strategies, that do not take into account how enemies are made in the first place...

    It's not a matter of pride...I suggest it as a matter of innocence lost in the fog of war's brutal consequences....seems you have to stop the bad guys source of anger...let them be...to live out their lives in peace....it's all anybody sees as a goal in all this blood and wrent flesh, often fresh in their minds....the haunted minds of the helpless weigh in my thinking....

...you're counting on the confusion.....it makes any form of retaliation dismissable as the 'cause' for so-and-so being pointed to as the 'enemy'...I'm so very sick of those  arms dealers inventing excuses for the sake of sales....get my drift...???