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Tomahawks Have Been The US Weapon Of Choice For Years

Tomahawks Have Been The US Weapon Of Choice For Years

Late last week, two U.S. warships fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in response to a suspected chemical weapon attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. As Statista's Nial McCarthy details, the Tomahawk cruise missile has been at the very tip of America's spear in every major military intervention since 1991.

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Trump's Bombing of Syria: Continuation of a Policy Which Started Only 3 Years After Syria Became an Independent Nation

The CIA backed a right-wing coup in Syria in 1949, a mere 3 years after Syria became an independent country.

Clark University History professor Douglas Little notes:

Recently declassified records… confirm that beginning on November 30, 1948, [CIA operative Stephen] Meade met secretly with Colonel Zaim at least six times to discuss the “possibility [of an] army supported dictatorship.” [“Cold War and Covert Action: The United States and Syria, 1945-1958,” Middle East Journal, Winter 1990, p. 55]

 

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