Shots Fired. What Now?

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🗓️ 7 April 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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What does President Trump want to achieve with Thursday's escalation of force against Syria? Fred Kaplan considers all the angles, including this one: Ordering a strike against a single Syrian air base was one of the lesser military actions President Trump could have approved. Kaplan writes the War Stories column for Slate. In the Spiel, like a clueless boyfriend in a zip-up sweater, Trump went to Jared. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.3	It's Friday, April 7, 2017 from Slated's Digestime, Mike Pesca.
0:12.6	In 2013, Donald Trump tweeted,
0:15.7	The President must get congressional approval before attacking Syria.
0:19.9	Big mistake if he doesn't.
0:22.0	He also tweeted,
0:23.4	Again, to our very foolish leader,
0:26.0	Do not attack Syria.
0:28.0	If you do many very bad things will happen
0:30.2	and from that fight, the US gets nothing.
0:33.4	Back then, these tweets were from the star of a reality TV show
0:37.6	who had as much input over Syria as dog the bounty hunter
0:41.3	had over the normalization of trade relations with Burma.
0:44.8	But even a week ago, his UN ambassador in Secretary of State
0:48.6	announced a seemingly new American policy
0:51.6	regarding Bashar al-Assad that the Syrian President gets to stay
0:56.2	and spokesman Sean Spicer confirmed indeed
0:58.7	that this was the new in his words, reality.
1:01.6	Do you clear up where the President stands
1:03.6	on whether Bashar Assad is the legitimate President of Syria?
1:07.4	Well, I think with respect to Assad,
1:10.4	I mean, there is a political reality that we have to accept
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