Spot on.

who have wanted to go in for a long time but were stymied by the wiser thinking of Obama.

Face it, Dolt doesn't give a shit about a bunch of dead Syrian peasants, especially the kiddies. He can't make any money of Syrian peasant kiddies. He didn't feel betrayed by Assad, he didn't feel betrayed by Putin, and Bannon is still his chief of staff.

I don't think this whiplash inducing policy change was Dolt's idea. I don't think it was his idea to shitcan Bannon at the NSC. I don't think it was his idea to tweak Putin's nose by launching million dollar missiles at an air base with MIGs and Russian pilots around. And I notice how uncharacteristically subdued his statement after the fact was, with no bravado, no boasting, and absolutely no bully's swagger. I'd have expected a "We showed THEM!!" but it wasn't there.

I could be wrong, of course, I've worked enough psych that I know how unpredictable a loony bin can be, especially one that specializes in unmedicated people off the street. However, I smell a rat in this one and for once, it's not Dolt.

He had to give his say-so whether he thought it up or not. So he owns it.

More support for it. He also had a larger goal and didn't just want sometHing for show.

Trump did all this for show and to cover for his support for assad .

I don't think Dolt is this smart. And then there is Bannon getting the boot from the NSC.

And then there is Bannon, which doesn't fit this at all. Remember, he's still Chief of Staff. Even though the news today says he and Kushner have kissed and made up, the only place either would bury the hatchet is in the other's back.

The truth is that the WH is almost as much of a clusterfuck as Syria is. We don't know the truth about either place.

I worked on an adolescent psych ward for 2 years.

but good luck to them in getting it built and not blown up considering all the tribes and sects in the region hate each other and have done so for over a thousand years.

I so miss the Clinton and Obama administrations when the adults were in charge.

He seems to always be spot on.

Bubbles can burst.

Where was this posted? (btw, I do think that is the rule here and it is to give credit to the writers with a link back)

trump doesn't fool me for a nanosecond.

If the photos of dead children bothered him, he'd have already been bothered by the shot of that tiny little boy, dead, in the surf, his body washed ashore, face mostly down in the sand, from an attempted escape from that hell hole.

not almost certainly have responded milltarily after giving the negotiations a chance. First tiime, try to resolve through international cooperatiion. Second time, you have no choice but to show we mean it.

After all, Obama was done with Bin Laden's actions and ordered up the Navy Seals. This vital to our security and no faked up military action, like Trump's.

He always sounds so phoney that sincerity would never register even if offered.

....is encouraging him to be reckless internationally, to use war to handle any ratings problems, to bomb when there are stories he wants buried, and that blood is on the hands of every one of these pundits.

They are rewarding his erratic impulses and thus they are normalizing erratic-ness.

It profoundly harms the country, the world and the whole idea and meaning of the fourth estate.

Amen, dog poop is still dog poop whether it is in the street or on your carpet. Pooping on the carpet does not make a dog a house pet.

SNLsaid the incompetent ass could not read a script. Hard to believe to this day, ANYONE VOTED FOR HIM. Rigged Rigged Rigged. I don't think I'll ever believe otherwise.

I still think Donny and Vlad are planning to divide up the world between the two of them. Assad doesn't realize it yet, but he's expendable.

"... pundits are describing Trump’s decision to bomb Syria as the first time he’s acted “presidential” and lived up to the expectations of the office."

Was that Van Jones talking about he became "pre*idental"?

Republicans don't give a phuck about. I always wonder how we Americans would feel if a ME nation decided to bomb us because we refused to reduce gun violence through gun sense legislation.