The problem is that Obama made the US into a paper target, we lost all respect from everyone.
Nobody fears us. As someone said, paraphrased “It’s good if they love and fear us, but if we can’t be loved, we need to make sure we are feared”
We are the laughing stock of the world and lobbing a few missiles is not only won’t change it, but will only reinforce it.
We didn’t get involved when the Iranian people rose up against the Iranian radical Islamic tyranny...when we could have turned Iran into a democracy, and defeating radical Islam’s main supporters. We had interest in that.
But in Syria there is no US interest.