Title: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on April 08, 2017, 09:47:44 AM
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on April 08, 2017, 09:47:44 AM
Brian Williams criticized for calling missile-launch photos 'beautiful'
NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Williams is facing online criticism for waxing poetic about what he called "beautiful pictures" of U.S. missiles launching during an attack on a Syrian air base.
Video released by the military shows Tomahawk missiles targeted for a Syrian airfield launching from the decks of U.S. warships in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday.
During his MSNBC program, The 11th Hour, late Thursday night, Williams said the "beautiful pictures at night" tempted him to quote a line from a Leonard Cohen song: "I am guided by the beauty of our weapons." He went on to call the images "beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments."
Williams was quickly mocked and criticized on Twitter for the remarks, with some users suggesting they were insensitive to the realities of war.
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: Anonymous on April 08, 2017, 10:53:03 AM
Post by: Anonymous on April 08, 2017, 10:53:03 AM
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: Zetsu on April 08, 2017, 11:25:46 AM
Post by: Zetsu on April 08, 2017, 11:25:46 AM
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: Anonymous on April 08, 2017, 11:36:35 AM
Post by: Anonymous on April 08, 2017, 11:36:35 AM
I think it's ok to be drawn by the beauty of these military cruise missiles, tanks, ships, fighter jets, carriers, etc, but just remember no matter how beautiful, in the end they're just all used for the same purpose, killing. That's what my brother always tells me when I was a kid.Quote from: "Zetsu":001_tongue:
There are people that find firearms beautiful, so being drawn to other military hardware doesn't surprise me.
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: JOE on April 08, 2017, 11:42:04 AM
Post by: JOE on April 08, 2017, 11:42:04 AM
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Quote from: "Fashionista"
...i suppose the beauty of war depends whether a person is it's recipient or the person who inflicts it upon others. Oh well.
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: Anonymous on April 08, 2017, 12:13:11 PM
Post by: Anonymous on April 08, 2017, 12:13:11 PM
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: RW on April 08, 2017, 05:03:26 PM
Post by: RW on April 08, 2017, 05:03:26 PM
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: Bricktop on April 08, 2017, 07:51:20 PM
Post by: Bricktop on April 08, 2017, 07:51:20 PM
Lessee...did Clinton seek congressional approval to whack Libya? Or Serbia, for that matter.
Did Kennedy or Johnson have Congessional approval?
How about Nicaragua? Bay Of Pigs?
Trump, it seems, is in good company.
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on April 08, 2017, 07:54:41 PM
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on April 08, 2017, 07:54:41 PM
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: RW on April 08, 2017, 08:18:02 PM
Post by: RW on April 08, 2017, 08:18:02 PM
Congressional approval?Quote from: "Bricktop"
Lessee...did Clinton seek congressional approval to whack Libya? Or Serbia, for that matter.
Did Kennedy or Johnson have Congessional approval?
How about Nicaragua? Bay Of Pigs?
Trump, it seems, is in good company.
The War Powers Resolution was passed by Congress in 1973 in an attempt to constrain a president's war-making capabilities after the undeclared conflicts in Vietnam and Korea.
Trump dumped something like 59 missiles on one airbase. Missiles that cost over a million dollars each without a nod from Congress. In terms of excuses, wtf is his?
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on April 08, 2017, 10:23:44 PM
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on April 08, 2017, 10:23:44 PM
It shouldn't be surprising, but it is to me nonetheless: Plenty of liberals who've long criticized Donald Trump as unfit to be president are praising his strike on Syrian airfields.
On CNN's New Day Thursday, global analyst Fareed Zakaria declared, "I think Donald Trump became president of the United States" last night. To his credit, Zakaria has previously called Trump a "bullshit artist" and said, "He has gotten the presidency by bullshitting." But Zakaria apparently thinks firing missiles make one presidential. On MSNBC, Nicholas Kristof, an aggressive Trump critic, said he "did the right thing" by bombing Syria. Anchor Brian Williams, whose 11th Hour has regularly been critical of Trump, repeatedly called the missiles "beautiful," to a noisy backlash on Twitter.
While The New York Times posted several skeptical, even critical stories, it gave us this piece of propaganda: an article initially titled "On Syria attack, Trump's heart came first," buying the president's line that his opposition to anti-Assad military action was reversed by seeing the heartrending photos of children struggling to breathe after a chemical attack.
Title: Re: Varying Strike Opinions
Post by: IRISH KAM on April 09, 2017, 01:57:35 AM
Post by: IRISH KAM on April 09, 2017, 01:57:35 AM
The idiotic liberal left would be ' Demanding ' that Trump does someThAng aboot the chemical attack .
TRUMP did do someThAng aboot Assads chemical attack .
Now the Liberals are accusing Trump of escalating the war ?
Liberals are idiots .