Double & SingleQuoting Syria

April 7th, 2017 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — who like Ryan Evans has more questions than answers ]

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This, for the use of the DoubleQuotes format:

SecState Tillerson and NSA McMaster just gave two conflicting statements on Syria strikes. Message discipline sorely needed right now. pic.twitter.com/6cPRrCEgsI

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) April 7, 2017

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Okay, undeclared warfare has clearly been declared, if it hadn’t been already: maybe someone should tell Congress —

The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2013

In the meantime, consider:

Now that Trump has directly struck and taken out an Assad regime air base, the regime to watch for reaction isn't Russia's but Iran's.

— ?yad el-Baghdadi (@iyad_elbaghdadi) April 7, 2017

together with:

It's worth pausing to think about the Chinese angle here, too. What do they make of this happening during Xi's visit?

— Howard French (@hofrench) April 7, 2017

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Reaction from the furthest right in two tweets:

Bannon out. Nunes out. Flynn out. Sessions recused. We won WH & both houses! Imagine if we lost. GOP would be picking up Dems dry cleaning.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 6, 2017

together with:

If Bannon does not resign, I will have lost a tremendous amount of respect for him. #NoWarInSyria

— Richard ? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) April 7, 2017

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And just for the sheer fun of it — no DoubleQuote here!

One Syrian tells me the new nom de guerre for President Trump on the ground in Northern Syria is Abu Ivanka al Amriki. #syria

— Clarissa Ward (@clarissaward) April 7, 2017

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  1. carl:

    April 7th, 2017 at 7:24 pm

    I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Assad and the Russkis tried an in-your-face move and we flattened an air base with a punitive strike. We have been operating in Syria for rather a long time now and this strike in and of itself doesn’t add much to that since it seems to be a reaction to a specific provocation.
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    I am glad to see that a decision was made relatively quickly and when force was decided upon it was a great force indeed. 59 one thousand pound warheads carefully placed probably would not leave a lot still standing at that airfield.
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    I wonder if you could say Trump got inside some people’s OODA loop