A.G. Gancarski
Thursday evening saw cable news broadcasts offering Strange New Respect for President Donald Trump after the bombing of a Syrian military base.
The bombing, a response to the Syrian regime’s alleged use this week of Sarin gas in its ongoing civil war, was framed as a humanitarian measure by President Trump.
“Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children,” Trump said Thursday evening from Mar-A-Lago.
Despite his words, there are some who question the motives of President Trump in taking this action.
And a group of them will converge on Jacksonville’s Hemming Park Friday evening at 6:00 p.m.
Jacksonville Against the War in Syria and the Jacksonville Progressive Coalition framed Thursday evening’s bombing as launching a “war on Syria” on their Facebook invite.
“Just like the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and countless other countries, this will not bring freedom or peace to the Syrian people, or anyone else. It will only bring more destruction, death, and suffering,” the group asserts.
“The only people who benefit from this war on Syria are the 1% class of billionaires that Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon Mobil, represents. We need to fight their agenda, not fight another rich man’s war,” the group adds.
Some of the same people protesting the military incursion into Syria (one that could be augmented with ground troops) have already memorably protested Trump (and his political ally, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry) in Hemming Park in recent weeks.
The issue then: the executive order banning travel from seven majority-Muslim countries.
