Go Trump

In general, the Spanish media is  supportive of the United States´strike against the Syrian base from which that nation´s president launched a chemical weapons attack against his own people. The media also reports with quiet respect the movement of US warships toward the coasts of Korea. In the press and on TV there is open support for a reactivated American presence on the international scene. In Europe, President Obama´s timidity was never considered an intelligent attitude to adopt before the Russians, the Iranians nor the North Koreans. Europe and Spain conclude that the Obama passivity and Mr. Trump´s politically motivated isolationist posturing only increased Putin´s hunger for dominance on the world scene. While Dan Rather´s call for calm and meditation is wise, Europeans today hope that the strike against Syria will not be a unique show of force. They are convinced that the Russians and the Iranians will move to test the President´s resolve to stand firm. If they make a provocation and there is no response of force, the friends of al-Assad will continue to use any and all weaponry to destroy the dictators adversaries. Al-Assad is already beaten into the ground. Only the Russians and the Iranians allow him and his loyalists to continue the shame of national government in Syria. In reality what we are hearing and reading is Europe´s applause for America´s return to a role of leadership in the western world.