Even if by some bizarre means a diplomatic resolution to this happens in the next week, it's awful stuff.
Just like every one of America's military interventions, tonight's action will have an avalanche of unintended consequences. At "best," many of those consequences won't affect America or Americans directly. But they will stretch decades into the future. So many will die and the pain and loss will be extended further than it is already - more dead kids, more dead parents, more refugees, more terrorists. Consider that tonight's attack is very nearly on the 14th anniversary of the Battle of Baghdad and muse a little on what proceeded from that.
There's not going to be a quick resolution. Why? trump was always a tool of neocons and the MIC. He bankrolled them and hobnobbed with them. A quick Google will get you a photo of trump with the worst of them. You can find him alternately insulting and endorsing virtually all of them. Enemy Nikki Haley becomes US Ambassador etc etc. It's all a charade. trump's long-time adversarial stance against Ron Paul marked him as a militarist. His first foreign policy cabinet appointments were noteworthy for their anti-Islamic uniformity. The opening months of his administration have been massive escalations of militarism, capped with a flamboyant, unconstitutional invasion of a sovereign nation.
What happens to America is only one part of the picture. The idea that the Syria attack is because of sad videos of dying kids is absurd. As far as I can tell, trump really doesn't think the lives of Arabs are worth as much as those of Americans. Their deaths don't phase him. And he doesn't think the lives of Americans at large are worth as much as his plutocrat friends from Goldman Sachs. Don't be shocked if we get the draft back in the next year or two. He has abdicated control to MIC generals and the CIA, enabling a more stealthy militarism that won't be observable even to the MSM. It's already up to independent agencies (one funded by an organization founded by Soros!) to make an attempt at assessing the human cost of our increasing foreign adventurism.
At "worst," we will have massive conscription and an unimaginable quagmire that kills our kids and makes the Iraq wars and Afghanistan look smalltime. I guess some people would call that WWIII. trump believes in making wild gambles. If they fail sometimes, that's okay, he'll make up for it with later successes. His gamble this time is giving control of war to the MIC and CIA. But his failures have never before resulted in the kind of unintended consequences that result in mass murder of innocent people, via conventional terrorism, or chemical or biological weapons, or nukes. In business, the man is an amusing maverick. As the leader of a militaristic nation-state, he's a catalyst for evil.
trump is the enemy. He's always been a con, a trickster, and a liar. It's forgivable to be charmed by him. But he's against peace, he's against free markets, he's against life itself. Zippy is not your enemy, trump is your enemy. Those who are shocked by tonight's action should consider the possibility that none of that is an overstatement.
Okay. So a vote in congress now is not a decision. LOL. You've just jumped the shark.
