I've read that every Christian in Syria supports Assad. There's no way to scientifically verify that, I suppose, but the alternatives are certainly unpleasant.

Michael, you are 100% on target.

In Her All-Highest United.Nation High-Chair, we may find our new Queen-Pretender, Nikki Hayley. Since The Madam Nikki has assessed all global knowledge, please standby for "Braking News"---on the possible announcement of the sole winner of the Syrian Civil War---which surely must be ISRAEL---yes, Israel---which has a common border with Syria.
In the Dimona Desert near the Red Sea, also find the hiding place for Israel's Atomic and Gas weaponry? Yes, yes, as Hillary Clinton reveals, "we all love Israel? And it is also well- known that the United States has stockpiles and stores Atomic and Gas Weaponry (underground in the Nevada Desert).
Since it is said to be a very controversial subject, we must now await Madam Nikki's approval to go forward? Meanwhile, Back-at-the-Ranch, there is a plan to "head them off at the Pass"----but since it's confidential we must await Madam Nikki's approval. Be aware that even Ms. Nikki must also consult with a certain Manhattan authority? Which is why "Breaking News" so often breaks up into FAKE NEWS? You know, it's the "DEEP STATE"? As attested in history, nothing remains secret for very long, despite national Intelligence? This from an old World-War-II code-maker and code-breaker, Jamaica, British West Indies.

Please see my reply to goatally_awesome on this thread.

"International bankers" are just a means to an end. I wouldn't believe anything in ANY news service speculating about which "side" the Rothschilds, Putin , Soros, or any of the rest of them are on. The one thing you can be sure of is that the elimination of Christianity in all its forms (but mainly the Catholic Church) is their ultimate end game. Pray the rosary like you've never prayed it before.
If it helps to know who's behind it all, consider not only who you're not permitted to criticize or draw attention to, but also those with the greatest stake in destroying the Church. You may also want to take note of who's not going to jail or being removed from key positions of power, no matter what they do.
Put your trust in God and in Our Lady, not in princes, or 4-D chess players. Chances are excellent that we won't ever know the full extent of the treachery until the Last Judgment.

Trust in Putin's "Christianity", and he'll break your heart with it. Putin is as surely the "pope" of the Russian Orthodox Church as Xi Jinping is the "pope" of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Church. Their higher loyalty is to Communism, not Jesus Christ. Are you really suggesting that Putin, former(?)KGB really takes spiritual direction from the KGB man at the head of the Orthodox Church in Russia? Would you, if you were serious about your faith, take spiritual direction from a man who was installed on the understanding that his first duty was to the state, not to God? Please! Whatever you might think of Putin, don't insult the man by presuming he's anyone's fool.
As for "breaking windows", there's no crime in damaging property you arguably already co-own anyway with the Rothschilds, the Soroses, the "rootless cosmopolitans" or anyone else in on the game. Globalism IS communism, and since we're speculating, I believe they're all on the same side. The illusion of there being irreconcilable differences among them are for our consumption, to keep us chasing our tails while we tacitly accept and approve everything in the communist playbook for the subversion of a target country (abortion, homosexuality, suppression of Christianity, state-controlled education, socialized health care, corruption of morals, destruction of the family, feminism, science liberated from morality, materialism, AND federal income tax). There's no reason for Putin to attack us openly- everything is proceeding according to plan. Putin is King Nebuchadnezzar, not Peter the Great. I don't believe that Mr. Trump is as witless and clueless as King Zedekiah of Judah. At the moment I'm not sure what he is, and I readily admit that picking a fight with the Russians a year into his presidency is precisely what I thought we spurned Hillary to avoid.
Our Lady of Fatima, please hasten the hour of Russia's consecration to your Immaculate Heart!

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There is also the issue of Syria's status as a central bank outside of Rothschild control: one of but a handful of such nations.

I thought you all liked Trump. Surprised to see such a change in attitude.

Would you consider us a newspaper of integrity if we demonstrated a willingness to defend that which is wrong, merely because we happen to like the guy who did it? When he makes a serious mistake like this, pushback from those who supported Trump goes a lot farther than that from those who did not.

And after this one term? What then. Hillary is unelectable. It's like wondering where do we go from Francis.

The parallels are sobering.

Or enough to drive you to drink.

Oprah is being prepped as of now. Be prepared for the grand Media hype when she presents herself as a candidate. Remember her introduction of a practically unknown candidate (Obama) for the presidency.
Some prophesies did suggest that there would be a woman fitting her description as a potential political leader in our continent.

We've got more information out now about what was going on.

It seems that the missile attacks were themselves a face-saving measure.

Strikes were coordinated with Russia. Hit buildings that were largely abandoned. 3/4 of the missiles were intercepted. Not Russian, Iranian or Hezbollah facilities were targeted.

Of the facilities destroyed, there were no reports of any gas or anything leaking out (naturally because obviously there weren't any). But it seems one chemical plant, producing treatments for cancer, was destroyed, especially bad considering that sanctions prevent medicine from coming into Syria.

Like the previous missile attack, this one was a big load of nothing burgers, a waste of US taxpayer expense, and simply a show-boat piece of political theater.

Trump is caught in a vice.

If Trump does not bomb Syria, the lefties and neo-cons will call him a Russian agent.

If Trump does break all manner of US and international law to bomb Syria, the democrats and neo-cons can use this as grounds to impeach him. Something that never occurred to them back when Barry Obama was doing likewise. But that was then, this is now.

Either way, it's a win-win situation for the American Deep State. The close-to-retirement Pentagon chiefs don't have to be at the helm of a world war, and can also likewise beg for more military spending because of the 'threat' of Russia and Assad. The Syrians are set back and the U.S. has bought more time for its little Al Qeada forces of rebel fighters on the ground. Given the action of the UN, the US can remain confident that nobody will dare to condemn its actions, and the crazed Nikki Hayley can continue to return there and abuse the lot of them. Russia's supposed 'non-response' will be painted in the media as them having no balls to follow through, even though in reality this missile strike was coordinated between the U.S. and Russia (likely via France) to do the most minimal damage, leave Russian forces untouched, and buy some more time for Planet Earth while the Americans wave another 'Mission Accomplished' banner.

We should be sure to send Vladimir Putin thank-you cards for helping the US and UK save face a little after their failed attempts at fake chemical attacks and falsely blame it on Russia and Syria.

Yet somehow I think despite Trump's missile fireworks and the mainstream news saying impressive things about the US destroying Assad's supposed chemical weapons, we will expect again more claims of Assad chemical weapon attacks and that Trump is still a Russian agent for a long time to come from the same stooges.

I suppose we can predict the US will try another attempt to escalate things when the World Cup rolls around and Putin is distracted with football season.

I must admit I did wonder how they managed to bomb a chemical weapons stash without releasing vast amounts of lethal chemicals into the air and doing more harm than good.

Maybe we can bomb ourselves in retaliation next time - for the sake of the "innocent women and children", of course.

Something else worth noting. For Christians who are on the Julian Calendar (I'm not sure which one the Greek-Melkite Catholics follow), last weekend was the start of Easter (RT network covered Orthodox divine liturgy for Holy Saturday in Moscow, where President Putin was in attendance). It's well known that the Syrian Christian community supports President Assad, and if this chemical attack was indeed ordered by him, then the timing could not have been worse - sacrilege on top of mass murder. And yet we heard nothing coming from that direction denouncing his actions at all, which leads me to believe that it didn't happen, at least not the way it's being presented. It's a false flag being used to goad the US and her western allies into war.

exactly .. the deep state wants Trump to crumble.... this is their tactic....

we Christians must must must wake up and pray like never before also for Pres. Trump... he is a great \President - who has done much good- but he is being 'fooled' by those who wish 'to destroy him'// and the US.

It is the moment to get behind the President not like cowards - who walk away when the going gets rough. Time to test our own metal folks!

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Totally agree with you. Didn't we go through the same spiel when the media was hyperventilating about Saddam Hussein in 2003? The U.S. got rid of him and then we sent thousands of soldiers (many who were wounded or killed) and spent billions in dollars in "peacekeeping efforts".

Are we going to fall for the same lies all over again???

Sorry, I just had to vent - nothing personal.

On another note, the Melkite Greek Catholics in the U.S. follow the Gregorian calendar:

https://melkite.org

Click on "Death Could Not Hold Him".

I've also read that Syriac, a now mostly liturgical language, is a western dialect of Aramaic. These are some of the oldest Christian communities in the world, and our actions over there are preparing them for martyrdom.

Yep! Do they really never learn? Or are they just pulling the same fast one all over again...and expect us to believe it? I don't know what happened there with the gassed people story...I wasn't there...something seems to have happened....but I was there during Saddam's time...and yes, some things happened...but an awful lot of it wasn't the way it was portrayed in the West. And as the article points out, there's a whole load of selective indignation going on, irrespective of what actually happened. I was never exactly a Trump fan...but I did think he was a step in the right direction in some ways...but now it just seems like plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose. It's the same - if not worse - here in the UK. It seems like the politicians and parties don't really mean anything any more...they all just seem to be puppets of some agenda that is bigger than all of them. The thing that was really a breath of fresh air with Trump, whether you like everything he did or not, was that he seemed to do what he believed in and not give a monkey's what anyone thought. He seemed prepared to swim against the tide. I am disappointed in him. So where do you Americans go from here? I guess the same way we here in the UK have gone...from worse to worser. We thought we got rid of Blair....same old same old.

wrong... we all do what we must do.... yes Trump and May and |Macro made a massive mistake - but you must go deeper and ask who is really behind it.. ..
Time we all carried some responsibility and stop the blame game.
Time we all prayed night and day and got out of our comfort zones and gave a hand.
Time to write the President forgive him and get on with building world peace..it is now or never.

You were in the U.K. armed forces in 2003??? WOW.

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On another note, the American people voted for Trump because he was a businessman, NOT a politician. After he was elected in 2016, there were almost continuous protests re the legitimacy of his election. In early 2017, he had a meeting at the White House with Henry Kissinger, all of a sudden the protests died down and then stopped. Why? Kissinger was Secretary of State to Nixon & Ford. What reason could there be for him to visit Trump?

The same cycle has been going on since then. Imo, it proves what FDR said: "Nothing in politics happens by accident."

Noooo! I wasn't in the UK armed forces. Actually it was a bit the other way round. My husband was in the Jordanian military...as well as having some business dealings with Iraq. I saw and heard the whole thing (first Iraq war not second) from the inside so to speak. A lot of things weren't the way they seemed.