Now, 24 hours later we see the resolve of this new president
Thinking about the timing and his coolness
He had already ordered the strike on Syria and it was ongoing while he was having dinner with the Chinese leader. Now to put this in perspective. China, a very calculating political machine parked a single fighter jet on the runway of one of the disputed islands where they recently built a military base. A single jet...Meant to telegraph that they are staking claim to these islands and they are willing to use military force to keep them...a single jet
And as the Chinese leader is digesting some fresh caught from the waters off the coast in Florida, fifty American Tomahawk missiles are slamming into and utterly destroying one of Assad's six air bases.
And in retrospect, that Chinese leader now realizes that all the while pleasantries were being exchanged we weren't rattling a sabre, we were flattening real estate. 50 missiles, one jet...Who do you think came out on top of that little political juxtapositioning?