The professor is not privy to any evidence. He has his mind made up beforehand and his declaration is just to promote his own agenda. He has seen no more evidence to draw a conclusion from than Joe citizen has seen on CNN. As a vet, have you talked with any of your J2 folks? They would be far more reliable than this MIT professor.
No one stood to gain from the attack, except Assad, who was sending a message to his enemies. Tin pot dictators are not known for thinking about the consequences of their actions. They are gods in their own minds.
Wtf are you talking about? Assad getting a tomahawk stuffed up his ass is in his interest? He had it won and survived.
If you are privy to any more evidence than the Professor them I suspect you are breaking several laws by commenting at all on this topic.
Now you are deploying a total lack of knowledge. Assad had a lot less to gain than a certain Pipeline builder.