This isn’t going to end well; war rarely does.
I understand the Syrian government is horrible, and it makes me sick to think it’s gassing its own people including children.
However, as others have said, the devil you know sometimes is better than the devil you don’t, and the bottom line is we have no clue who the rebels are although some of them clearly are the terrorists who are our enemies.
Frankly, I would not put it past the so-called rebels to have done the gassing in the hopes of bringing U.S. military might to their aid against the government.
Finally, at the end of the day, regardless of how horrible events are over there, what is the national security interest of the United States to intervening in this tragic civil war where neither side has much of a moral claim to power?
This isn’t going to end well; war rarely does.
throw the plans out the window as soon as the first shot is fired. Assuming o nutcase does not get us in a shooting war with the Russians, what could end up happening here. First off, if the rebels win, who are they and what will they do. When they take retribution against the pro Assad people, will that be a decent outcome? How about if Syria and Iran attack Israel. What does o nut bag do then, complain to the UN as our forces are tied down and under strength now thanks to his leadership? Suppose the attacks do not alter the tragectory of the civil war and Assad ends up winning over the rebels, where does that leave the US in the eyes of the world and Syria - launching cruise missiles or bombing Syria is not the same as bombing a hapless Afghanistan or some backward African nation. I hope they have a good supply of asperins at hand. Meanwhile, o nut bag has now stacked his chips up and everyone is waiting for him to make his call, right into a pat hand.