Mission Accomplished. Sort of.

                So, I hate when this happens. I spent all week documenting how President Trump’s private-business negotiation tactics are working as an international economic strategy between governments: China is making concessions on U.S. auto tariffs and other things; Mexico, in spite of their feigned upset over us not wanting Hondurans traipsing through their living room to enter our country, is very anxious to preserve some version of NAFTA even if it is more favorable to us; as is that odd little fellow they’re letting run Canada right now.

                And then stupid Syria has to have another unspeakably horrible chemical weapons attack on its own people prompting us to do the only thing we could do: retaliate as you would do for any spoiled, unruly misbehaving child unless you live on Planet Snowflake.

                I guess retaliation would be unnecessary if you didn’t think that sort of atrocity needed to be punished just on the basis that it is an atrocity that humanity should not tolerate, but I think even the Trump-hating Team Blue would have to admit they’d like to not see chemical weapon use be exported from Syria into the hands of terrorists around the globe, specifically to a New York subway or some other U.S. target.

                What got me going this morning were a couple of Associated Press stories citing a lack of evidence for the missile attacks Friday by the U.S., Great Britain and France and referring to the attack as hasty and ill-conceived. In typical fashion the AP attributed such solid sources as, “critics,” “some,” “their,” and “many,” accusing, denying, criticizing and being upset.

                The stellar (NOT) journalistic integrity of the left continues.

                One of the AP articles said Theresa May, UK Prime Minister, could face “serious backlash” for not seeking approval from Parliament for participating in the action, “reminding many of the tainted legacy of former PM Tony Blair’s rush to back George W. Bush in Iraq.”

                Later in the article the AP, perhaps accidentally, did reveal that May wasn’t legally required to seek lawmaker’s approval for her decision. “Opposition leaders,” (no names at all) were really mad about it though. Isn’t that kind of like Schumer and Pelosi being upset because Donald Trump said “Yay, America?” In other words, so what?

                French President Emmanuel Macron showed surprising common sense and grit for a Frenchman and said, “We cannot tolerate the normalization of the use of chemical weapons,” and then sent French warplanes into the strike. I didn’t even know the French had warplanes, let alone missiles, but I read online that they are actually the third largest military force in NATO.  Hmmm.

                And following his quote (proving that AP reporters do know how to attribute information when they want to or it serves their op-ed narrative) the news service labored so hard to also say Macron was in big trouble for doing anything Donald Trump thought was a good idea. 

                The AP quoted another real person—far right leader Marine Le Pen—as tweeting that Macron had exposed France to “unpredictable and potentially dramatic consequences,” by participating in the strike.

                Not real specific but Le Pen does get points for scary drama. Le Pen is also the person who called for labor strikes in France that have halted two-thirds of their train system so far. It seems socializing capitalism isn’t working out all that well.

                Anyway, Macron has his own hate club and issues to deal with in France and it sounds like he faces the same issues Trump does in that if he came out in favor of oxygen his opposition would begin holding their breath until they passed out.

                USA Today, The Telegraph, The Guardian, even Reuters and The Washington Post all cite intelligence reports and eyewitness accounts of the chlorine and sarin gas attack in Duomo, Syria, on April 7, killing at leas 40 people many of whom were children. The withdrawal of ground troops from the area immediately before the attack seems to be pretty strong evidence the Syrian government knew a little something about what was coming.

                I found two accounts that also document several other uses of chemical agents by the Syrian government with far fewer casualties but the same nasty results since the April 4^th chemical attack last year that left 80 dead. A pretty strong indicator Bassir Assad didn’t get the hint after our last missile strike.

                Even German President Angela Merkel endorsed the strike and she’s one of the world leaders whose criticism of and disdain for Trump is so very embarrassing for U. S. citizens on the left who give a damn what she thinks.

                And yet CBS, the NBC conglomeration and CNN continue to lead the cry that we have “acted without evidence.” Their sources (and I am not making this up): Russian military experts who have visited the site and said that the use of chemical weapons is not conclusive.

                Russian military experts.

The leftist media is so anxious to defy and criticize President Trump that they are now taking the word of Russian military experts over U.S., French, British and German intelligence reports as well as video and pictures showing dead bodies with foam coagulated in their mouths and throats and eyewitness accounts of the distinct smell of chlorine at the site.

                The Russian military experts in the employ of the very same Russia that Pretty Boy Bobby Mueller is trying so hard to prove colluded with Donald Trump to swing the election in his favor because Putin fairly trembled in his boots over the prospect of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the White House and her promise of at least four more years of the dreaded Obama Doctrine of drawing useless and meaningless lines in the sand.

                After all, it was that sainted, international powerhouse negotiator Obama who forced Putin to agree to keep Syria in check and make sure that all those chemical weapons and the technology to manufacture them were destroyed. Or else.

                Whew! Thanks Barack. That really worked.

                Maybe not as well as 105 heavy ordinance missiles destroying three chemical weapon manufacturing facilities Friday night, but good try!

                Anyway, bravo again Mr. President, although I have to agree with that guy Many On The Left who says “Mission accomplished,” may be a little premature. I understand what the president meant—the mission was a retaliatory strike to punish Assad for using chemical agents and that was accomplished emphatically—but I think it is pretty undeniable that the little conflict in that region is far from over.

                What may—I hope—prove interesting is if a superior private business negotiation skill set translates as well in global politics as I believe it is in global economics. Maybe this will prove to have more to do with Putin’s need to support Syria because he needs a bootleg option to sell Russian oil with so many sanctions in place against Russia over the Ukraine and other annoying Russian politics than it will with bombs and bullets.

                Though I can already hear the wailing about relieving economic pressure on Russia to minimize their need for a relationship with Syria as a trade partner as “conclusive proof” that the Trump-Russia collusion the left has been fantasizing about for going on two years is real, damnit, and Hillary should be president. Waaah.

                But for now: Mission Accomplished.