TERRY MOSHER
Pardon me if I’m suspicious of the missile attack on Syria and all the suddenly ugly rhetoric being issued by both our government and the Russians. I’m likely wrong on this, but being a reporter does that to oneself – becoming cynical. You know the missiles fired – our government says 59 were fired and the Russians say only 23 arrived at the airbase that was targeted – did not do damage to the runways, and to me that is highly suspicious. Yeah, I know that the part-time occupier of the White House said the runways were not targeted because it’s easy to fix them, but that is not true. We have what is called anti-runway penetration bombs that would have made them unusable. Instead, the Syrians and likely the Russians became flying off from the runways just hours after the attack. So the cynic in me says why spend $29.5 million worth of missiles (each costs a half-million) if you don’t want to do the most damage? Something smells rotten. Then I’m amused that our top national defense officials have given off mixed signals on how to treat Russian and while there has been some threatening comments made on both sides, I think it’s all phony and done to cover-up the cover-up that the FBI and other of our intelligence agencies are trying to unravel concerning how much the Russians influenced our election and how much if any cooperation they got from the Trump campaign and maybe from the monster himself. Now we will see what comes out of Rex Tillerson’s visit to Moscow that is going on right now. Tillerson isn’t scheduled to meet Vladimir Putin, who once received the Russian Order of Friendship from him. This is a revolving circus and to better understand what is going on I think it’s good – and necessary – not to take anything said at face value, but to watch for actions that follow meetings like this. That will be the truth. God help us.