Last night’s strike by U.S. forces in Syria

[BoyNextDoor]

Bad policy by the US and bad first military action by Biden.

 

[Dribble]

Bad policy by the US and bad first military action by Biden.

So it is OK for them to launch missiles at our bases there? I see the kind of dude you are...please Iran....don't attack us. Let's just sing instead.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Pack up the bases and GTFO and there is nothing to shoot at.

 

[sighLent]

They hit the wrong target

The pilots musta been trannies

 

[Philthy_Phil]

But....Biden is so buddy buddy with iran (according to trumptards)

 

[Dribble]

Pack up the bases and GTFO and there is nothing to shoot at.

Lol. Sure...you are just like Trump. Abandon our allies. Traitor

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Saraya Alwiya al-Dam, not affiliated to Iraq, was responsible for the 2/15 attack that killed a US Mercenary, but the US "retaliation" was against Kata'ib Hezbollah and Kata'ib Sayyid al Shuhada.

The attack was also not lawful under the UN Charter which "makes absolutely clear that the use of military force on the territory of a foreign sovereign state is lawful only in response to an armed attack on the defending state for which the target state is responsible. None of those elements is met in the Syria strike.” According to Mary Ellen O'Connell Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School and a Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace in Studies.

And we have been fucking around in IRAQ for 20 YEARS because a bunch of SAUDIS kamikazed the Twin Towers. There are no allies here to abandon.

End the fucking endless wars!

 

[BoyNextDoor]

I agree

Democrats renew push for war powers overhaul after Biden’s Syria strike


"The American people deserve to hear the Administration’s rationale for these strikes and its legal justification for acting without coming to Congress," said Kaine, who sits on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees.

"Offensive military action without congressional approval is not constitutional absent extraordinary circumstances," he added. "Congress must be fully briefed on this matter expeditiously."

Murphy, a Foreign Relations Committee member, added in a statement that "retaliatory strikes, not necessary to prevent an imminent threat, must fall within the definition of an existing congressional authorization of military force."

"Congress should hold this administration to the same standard it did prior administrations, and require clear legal justifications for military action, especially inside theaters like Syria, where Congress has not explicitly authorized any American military action," Murphy said.

Kaine and Murphy have long pushed to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force and the 2002 Iraq War authorization and institute new guidelines for Congress to approve military action.

Progressive Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the only lawmaker to vote against the 2001 authorization in the days following 9/11, said the Syria strike highlights the need to remove old war powers from the books and return to nuclear talks with Iran.

"The strike in Syria underscores the urgent need to get back to the table with Iran and revive the JCPOA," Lee said, referring to the Iran nuclear deal. "It also underscores the urgent need to repeal the blank check for endless wars — the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs — which are now almost 20 years old."

"Let’s be clear: this is not about this president or any other president, it is about the need to restore the balance of power with Congress in the use of military force," Lee said.

 

[Lazaran]

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A surgical air strike against a convoy of Iranian backed arms smugglers???

Seems fairly measured as a response to Iranian, Syrian, and Russian fuckery.

As much as some people want to believe that the vacuum created by a total I.S. absence in the Middle East would result in benign actors filling that void; that is truly magical wishful thinking.

 

[Comshaw]

Saraya Alwiya al-Dam, not affiliated to Iraq, was responsible for the 2/15 attack that killed a US Mercenary, but the US "retaliation" was against Kata'ib Hezbollah and Kata'ib Sayyid al Shuhada.

The attack was also not lawful under the UN Charter which "makes absolutely clear that the use of military force on the territory of a foreign sovereign state is lawful only in response to an armed attack on the defending state for which the target state is responsible. None of those elements is met in the Syria strike.” According to Mary Ellen O'Connell Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School and a Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace in Studies.

And we have been fucking around in IRAQ for 20 YEARS because a bunch of SAUDIS kamikazed the Twin Towers. There are no allies here to abandon.

End the fucking endless wars!

Reread the bolded portion in your post and then read this:



“These strikes were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and Coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats to those personnel,” Kirby said.

ran-backed militias are believed responsible for a Feb. 15 rocket attack in Iraq that killed a U.S. military contractor and wounded a U.S. service member.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-us-airstrike-syria-biden-20210226-7n4w5ctynbcx3bypt5c5vphe44-story.html

It seems to me the strike was in response to an armed attack that falls well within the parameters of the UN regulation. So the opinion by Mary Ellen O'Connell Professor of Law is gravely in error. I understand I'm not a lawyer and she is, but being a lawyer doesn't automatically make you correct all the time nor does it automatically make you unbias, now does it?

Comshaw

 

[jaF0]

They blow stuff up.

We blow stuff up.

They blow stuff up.

We blow stuff up.

They blow stuff up.

We blow stuff up.

They blow stuff up.

We blow stuff up.

They blow stuff up.

We blow stuff up.

Before long, there's no more stuff to blow up.

 

[Dribble]

Some people don't know who funds who. They should become more educated instead of blanket posting links that they think support their view. See...every Party has stupid...and this, BND, is an example in my Party.

I do not support war. We should never have been there in the first place. But we are. And that is the reality. So we are either a Country others respect...a country where our promises mean something...or we are a country of Trump idealism where our word means nothing.

This was a targeted attack sending a message to Iran...you want to be a leader...then lead your dogs...or we will wipe them off the face of the planet. The choice is yours.

It is just like releasing the report about the Saudi Prince ordering the hit on the journalist. It is a clear message that there are new rules.

Biden...has more experience understanding the dynamics of the middle east than just about anyone.