@Robby:
China, Russia, North Korea, that whole region that we shouldn't be messing in? The senate that didn't get asked about it or approve it.
Of course China, Russia, and North Korea are against it. Just like Britain, Saudi Arabia, and Israel are for it. You can find a whole list of countries positions on Syrian strike.
And we've already been messing around in that region. Have been since Obama tentatively supplied anti-Assad fighters with weaponry. It's just that we haven't been involved to this extent before but believe me we've been fighting against Assad. I still think Obama should have went ahead with his "red line" threat when Assad used chemical weapons on his watch.
I'm not so sure the senate is against Trump's airstrike. Congress might call for their approval before military decisions can be made because of course they do. More power to them, both figuratively and literally but, again, there is so much known precedence under nearly every modern administration to invoke limited military action without congressional approval it's still being debated just how much power the president is supposed to have in affairs like these.
By people that get boners from us shooting missiles. Not anyone that gets it was just a inneffective publicity stunt.
I can't say that's true. People actually care about what's going on over there and have praised Trump's strike not because they like seeing missiles being shot but because they like seeing missiles being shot at Assad. Even I who called the whole thing a PR move sees some positives in Assad's base being shot at by the U.S.
Morale for the rebels, a barely working airfield, less of a window of excuses for America to get on Russia's good side now that our relationship is supposedly "deteriorating", walk back of Trump's previous stance that 'Assad was there to stay', and it just makes America look good abroad too. Something we've been sorely lacking these past few months.
And if that's what it was about, that'd be fine. But when there's serious doubt about the actual intent? WHen its just a "distract from Russia" trick? When no actual damage was done? When there is NO follow up game plan? At all?
Then people will decide whether they agree with the airstrike or not in the future and whether they even agree with some of those doubts, but as it stands right now people don't know what's going to happen or what Trump has planned for Syria. As it stands right now people are optimistic that a bold move was made, a warning shot, to Assad for what he's doing to his people.
Public opinion may very well turn on Trump if he doesn't follow up with something serious after this so there's that.