Very good assessment and if the strike in Syria was just a brush back pitch, good.
If Nikki Haley’s statements about regime change are what they are considering, they need to reassess.
Regime change has not worked out well anywhere it has been tried, particularly in the muslim world.
Libya is a disaster and has doubled the European refugee problem.
Iraq is not much better.
The Egyptian Army saved Egypt.
Strong men are the only way stability exists in that part of the world.
They are not ready and may never be ready for self-governance.
Give it a shot.
The dictators are gone. Time marches on.
Moslem societies are self enforcing at the most basic level, neighbors will keep each other in line, but republican democracy is an impossibility in an Arab or Arabized Moslem culture. The Turks managed it for 70 years but are relapsing seriously. Malaysia once looked to be pulling it off and is losing it slowly.