I would like someone to explain to me, in a systematic and convincing way, how the US attacking the Assad Regime is going to do anything but prolong the Syrian Civil War, deepen the misery of the Syrian people, and risk widening the destabilisation and conflict to the wider Middle East and neighbouring areas like, Iran, Lebanon and already ravaged Iraq. Being angry at Bashar al Assad for using chemical weapons in the past and allegedly using them on April 7th, 2018 is not a licence to bomb a country with which you are not at war. Since 1948 IIRC the foremost war crime which any state's leadership can commit is the voluntary waging of war. Bombing Syria is not necessary as Syria is not an existential threat to America (it is an annoying nussance and a barbarous example of man's inhumanity to man but it is not a seriuos threat to America) and therefore doing so would open up the US leadership and military brass to legal jeopardy under international laws which the US Government has signed on to.
Bashar al Assad's regime is monstrous and viciously wicked. But compounding the destuction which that regime has caused within its own borders by doing more destruction, which will achieve nothing in the end, is frankly irrational. Military force is a tool which can only solve some problems and this is a problem which military force cannot solve, unless the US is willing to commit hundreds of thousands of American boots on the ground for years ahead to occupy Syria in order to effect both regime change and the pacification of all armed groups, including both government and rebel forces. There is no political appetite in the American body-politic for such a massive military committment, so using limited military force is a non-starter which will only make things worse and risks widening armed conflict and further destabilisation to neighbouring areas.
War doesn't solve international or intra-national problems. War just determines who gets to solve such problems, and America does not want to solve Syria's problems. Nor do most Americans want to underwrite the risk and expense of tangling with Iran or Russia in a bid to have that burden of solution foisted upon them. Think, people, before you act and learn from the follies of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, rather than repeating the same destructive mistakes over and over again while somehow expecting to get different results each time. War is almost always a racket and is seldom a viable solution!
Cheers?
Evilroddy.
