The Spoils of War: Trump Lavished
With Media and Bipartisan Praise For Bombing Syria
April 7 2017, 7:43 a.m.
In every
type of government, nothing unites
people behind the leader more quickly, reflexively or reliably than
war. Donald Trump now sees how true that is, as the same establishment
leaders in U.S. politics and media who have spent months denouncing him as
a mentally unstable and inept authoritarian and unprecedented threat to
democracy are standing and applauding him as he launches bombs at Syrian
government targets.
Trump, on
Thursday night, ordered an attack that the Pentagon said included the
launching of 59 Tomahawk missiles which “targeted aircraft, hardened aircraft
shelters, petroleum and logistical storage, ammunition supply bunkers, air
defense systems, and radars.” The governor of Homs, the Syrian province where
the attack occurred, said early this morning that the bombs killed seven
civilians and wounded nine.
The
Pentagon’s statement said the attack was “in retaliation for the regime of
Bashar Assad using nerve agents to attack his own people.” Both Syria and
Russia vehemently deny that the Syrian military used chemical
weapons.
