...Eliot Cohen, a former State Department official in the George W. Bush administration, argued that the United States could have smashed the “Syrian air-defense system,” taking out aircraft and bases and killing a good number of military personnel on the ground — including Russians and Iranians.
Putin “would secretly fear a president who would do that, because he knows that military humiliation has provoked the downfall of more than one Czar in the past,” Cohen wrote. "So message received: The American enemy will posture and thump his chest, but is afraid to actually stand up to you, even though his air force could blow yours out of the sky and his navy sink yours to the bottom of the sea.”
... the Pentagon acknowledged that the strikes had not targeted all of the facilities involved in the development and production of such weapons.
"In the meeting with the Russians, Assad said that the strikes had demonstrated that Russian weapons were superior to U.S. ones, according to the lawmakers. Russia claims that 71 of 103 missiles fired were shot down, although the Pentagon says that is not true.
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