Trump’s pride has been hurt at home, so he’s looking to bolster it with a win in Syria

Donald Trump

President Donald Trump

Source: Independent

There’s nothing like a nice little war to rally a country around you. Just ask George W Bush, who romped to a second term after a couple of big ones

Is it just me or is there something faintly ridiculous about Donald Trump taking to the pulpit to deliver lectures about the behaviour of Bashar al-Assad? The killing of dozens of civilians in northern Syria in an apparent chemical attack by Assad’s air force certainly justifies his describing it as “an affront to humanity”. But Trump’s critics would have it that his softly softly approach with the Syrian leader provided the latter with the cover he needed to perpetuate the attack.

MORE:    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-syria-assad-make-up-for-his-domestic-policy-a7670376.html

2 replies

  1. How easy it is to manipulate the ‘strongest man in the world’ !!! Release some gas and he does exactly what they want : go after Assad’s air force …

  2. Aha, but who provided the chemical weapons in the first place…?!

    Or the means to make them?

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