{"id":136120,"date":"2018-04-13T19:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136120"},"modified":"2018-04-15T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T01:11:36","slug":"trump-speaks-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/trump-speaks-on-syria.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump Speaks on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, that little speech was weird.<\/p>\n

The man goes veering off into weird paths when he’s not reading the teleprompter — and you can tell every time he does, because his ability to read off the teleprompter (oh, the irony!) is bloody awful — weird pacing, an inability to pace his words naturally to what’s being scrolled past there. “… World War … … … 1 …” “and God bless the United States … of … America …”<\/p>\n

And what’s with all the looks off to his left? Was something over there making him think there was another camera?<\/p>\n

As to the speech itself — it’s interesting (and, honestly, probably a positive thing) that the UK and France are part of this attack. The “We’re doing this, and here’s why” part was pretty straightforward, the sort of thing any president would give. Then he sort of meandered into discussions about evil and Iran \/ Russia and local Arab nations paying for military efforts there and the US forces attacking ISIS and what great, great warriors they are … and those parts were a weird mix of Trumpian stream of thought and his wooden script reading.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any brilliant answers on Syria. The questions going on are how long this retaliation against Syria continues (the implication of the speech was this was an ongoing thing), how much that costs, and what actual actions will be trigger points. Assad has been doing various brutal attacks over the last year until Trump chose to respond to this<\/i> particular chemical attack.<\/p>\n

And, of course, there’s been all the telegraphing of these attacks by Twitter. Smooth move, Donald.<\/p>\n

Crazy times …<\/p>\n


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\n<\/a>
\nTrump: U.S. launches missile strikes in Syria – The Washington Post<\/a><\/span>
\nPresident Trump orders military strike in retaliation for a chemical attack near Damascus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, that little speech was weird. The man goes veering off into weird paths when he’s not reading the teleprompter — and you can tell every time he does, because his ability to read off the teleprompter (oh, the irony!) is bloody awful — weird pacing, an inability to pace his words naturally to what’s … Continue reading “Trump Speaks on Syria”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,349,1071],"tags":[1508,1507,1077],"class_list":["post-136120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-military","category-trump","tag-speech","tag-syria","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Trump-contemplative.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137610,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/08\/mr-trump-tries-to-foment-support-for-his-beautiful-wall.html","url_meta":{"origin":136120,"position":0},"title":"Mr Trump tries to foment support for his Beautiful Wall","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Jan-19 11:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I will say this for the Donald -- if you are teed up to believe the things he says, then when he is talking off-script he's an incredible salesman.But give him a script, put a teleprompter in front of him, force him to stick to the message, and he sounds\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131550,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/because-donald-trump-always-has-to-beat-up-the-opposition-always.html","url_meta":{"origin":136120,"position":1},"title":"Because Donald Trump always has to beat up the "opposition". 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