Assad has been moving weapons from Iran to Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon through Syria for decades.
Just now the U. S. took action for Israel after all these years. Ah..., not quite buying that line of reasoning.
I mentioned in my post, perhaps not the one your responding to that Israel has had recent bad blood with Syria.
It has had that bad blood for decades though.
I am not convinced the U. S. acted on behalf of Israel here.
The U. S. did not target Assad for convoys. They targeted him for a gas attack.
I have no idea if this action was warranted or not. No one else here does either, it seems that there is not agreement on who exactly used the weapons or if the release of gas was an accident.
What not debatable is: bombing a sovereign counties military airfield is an act of war. I you doubt that recall how we reacted to a “demonstration of strength” by a small pacific nation back ~75 years ago. Not so calm.
Now you say that Assad would not be so stupid as to get into a war with us. If he has no other chance of survival, i.e. if he does nothing he is doomed, maybe that is not such a bad course for him. Who knows. We certainly have any number of nations that would like to see us taken down a peg or two and might want to support an effort to see us lose a foreign adventure. So lets say Assad bombs our 1000 troops in Syria or captures a bunch. What do we do then? What is Russia lines up behind Assad? Easy we drag in Turkey, they are strong, they can crush Assad/Russia in no time. Wonder what Iran will do if their remaining ally in the region is under such attack?
Or Russia responds by taking the Donbas/lower Ukraine up to the Dnieper river if there are Russian casualties.. What then? Do we enter a general war with Russia?, after all there are only 153 million of them. Oh wait, the nukes......and how will China respond?
We by bombing have put ourselves in the position of having given a desperate man (Assad) an open act of war. How he responds and what it will ultimately involve us in is anybody’s guess. WWI started with a small incident in June and did not blow up until August 1. I pray and hope Trump was justified and knows what he is doing. We will all have to wait and see.