[StAnDeliver]

"Israel does this kind of payback all the time. After terrorism, they pick out targets to punish and lob missiles at them."

When was the last time Israel lobbed at an urban-based government, or anything but Hezbollah in the hills? I might be wrong, refresh my memory.

Israel does ground work. Reach out and touch someone. The covert Syrian nuke 'intervention' was not missle-led or missle-lobbed.

If you meant they use us/US by proxy for Tomahawk bell-ringing, not this time. They know, as does Asswad, as does the rest of the world, you want him out, you got to go in with boots and get him. This isn't Libya by a longshot.

[Nachum]

“When was the last time Israel lobbed at an urban-based government, or anything but Hezbollah in the hills?”

Ummm... does this qualify?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/act-of-war-israel-attacks-syrian-weapons-depot-containing-advanced-russian-arms/5341940

How about this one?

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201382343319546176.html

I don’t know. Maybe this one?

Operation Cast Lead

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/operation-cast-lead.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Returning_Echo

[Nachum]

If you meant they use us/US by proxy for Tomahawk bell-ringing, not this time. They know, as does Asswad, as does the rest of the world, you want him out, you got to go in with boots and get him. This isn't Libya by a longshot.

But that's the problem. What follows him may be worse than Assad- and our country is tired of long term military incursions into the middle east with no clear goal or endgame. There are so many things that can go wrong here, it is impossible to count.