Silke Jasso
Last week, the United States launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles against an airstrip in Syria in retaliation for a sarin gas attack launched by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against his own people last week, including women and children.
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The attack garnered responses of praise and criticism from the right and the left. By Friday afternoon, AFP reported the base had made necessary repairs and was already launching planes again; the strike destroyed just nine planes in total, some already under repair.
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Much debate about the effectiveness of the strike took place on Twitter, where the president weighed in.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/850785347038576640
The worst take on the attack, however, came not from the president or your own Twitter feed. It came from Clara Jeffrey, editor-in-chief of the liberal Mother Jones, who has concerns not about the complexity and potential catastrophe of firing dozens of missiles into volatile international human rights disasters, but the names of those missiles.
That the missiles are callled tomahawks must enrage a lot of Native Americans
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) April 8, 2017
Here’s where the Internet destroyed her:
please stop
— Pat Flowers (@MrPat21) April 8, 2017
— Maesters of the Midway (@R0cky_T0p) April 8, 2017
Asaad is killing and gassing people and your are worried about how people feeeeeeeeel about the name of a missile???
— MedicineBird (@RedCardinal07) April 8, 2017
Real journalists must be enraged that you call yourself one of them.
— Aussie_in_America (@AussieAmerican2) April 8, 2017
Probably just Elizabeth Warren.
— David A (@rcno13) April 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/JackCarsrudJr/status/850830259356356611
https://twitter.com/jhawk1986/status/850811889353412608
— Ben White 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@speedofwhite) April 8, 2017
