{"id":20931,"date":"2017-04-10T23:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T23:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20931"},"modified":"2017-04-10T23:38:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T23:38:53","slug":"what-about-the-barrel-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20931","title":{"rendered":"What about the ‘barrel bombs’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump unleashed 59 Tomahawk missiles against Syrian jet fighters and support facilities because of chemical weapons were used against Syrian civilians.<\/p>\n

That is a horrific act, to be sure, and the president was right to take action against Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad.<\/p>\n

Here, though, is the question: What about the barrel bombs that Syrian military forces\u00a0are dropping on civilian victims?<\/p>\n

It is agreed around the world that chemical weapons use must be stopped. The images we see of children writhing in agony are heartbreaking in the extreme.<\/p>\n

However, the Syrian government has killed many thousands more innocent victims using barrel bombs, which are devices filled with shrapnel. The bombs explode and the shrapnel flies out, shredding whatever — and whoever<\/em> — is in its path.<\/p>\n

Death by barrel bomb might not be as agonizing — and horrifying to watch — as death by chemical weapon, but Assad’s use of the hideous ordnance needs a stern world response as well.<\/p>\n

What is the strategy to deal with this hideous monster? Finally, what are we going to do about the Russian<\/em> role — the Russians’ complicity — in the use of barrel bombs and chemical weapons?<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump unleashed 59 Tomahawk missiles against Syrian jet fighters and support facilities because of chemical weapons were used against Syrian civilians. That is a horrific act, to be sure, and the president was right to take action against Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad. Here, though, is the question: What about the barrel bombs … Continue reading What about the ‘barrel bombs’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[7051,556,942,1424,4492],"class_list":["post-20931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","tag-barrel-bombs","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-donald-trump","tag-syrian-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20934,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931\/revisions\/20934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}