TenuredVulture wrote:drsmooth wrote:thephan wrote:I am not sure why we did not make a mess out of the runways. It seems logical that cratering the runway and mashing the aircraft shelters would be part of the mix.
sheesh, you're missing the point.
the point is, missiles were fired at something. drumpf's taken a page out of Yong-Un's playbook
I'm thinking this is correct. Trump fired missiles, simply to fire missiles. They were not intended to do any real damage, the whole thing was for show.
the networks were orgasming last night
the feedback he'll get from foxy and friends will be effusive
if i actually thought this would be a one-time limited strike, ok, i can live with it i guess. but when you lie over and over how are you supposed to have any confidence in this man or administration? it matters who is the one making the decisions and how they thought through the process.
the weird thing is framing this as: 1. one-off 2. show of force/deterrent
by definition those two ideas can't simultaneously exist