[thoughtomator]

The American people specifically and overwhelmingly said “NO!” to this war when Obama and Kerry and McCain tried to sell it to us with fraud.

Therefore, none of your listed concerns is US business. That US troops are where they should not be is what our business actually is.

Something a loyal American should have no problem understanding in full.

[Snickering Hound]

The Iranians are bringing back the days of the Sassanids with their control of the Middle East in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States are understandably freaked.

If Iran gets control of all that oil, enjoy your donkey and living in a yurt with no air conditioning.

[Zhang Fei]

[Therefore, none of your listed concerns is US business. That US troops are where they should not be is what our business actually is.]

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I don’t know where you’re getting this idea that the American people specifically and overwhelmingly said no to this war. And helping our friends and hurting our enemies is the very definition of advancing American interests.

[Zhang Fei]

I think a big part of the shift in the polls shown below has to do with GOP support for intervention. I was against Obama intervening because I thought he would do half-assed job with ROE’s that would get GI’s killed. Trump, on the other hand, is all about force protection. His stance appears to be - if enemy civilians are being used as human shields by their loved ones and they get killed, they get killed. Bottom line is that our guys are worth more than their guys, military or civilian, because they’re *our* guys. Which is fine with me.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-involvement-in-syria-2017-4
[A Morning Consult/Politico poll released Wednesday found that 57% of Americans supported airstrikes in Syria, 58% supported establishing a no-fly zone over parts of Syria including strikes against Syria’s air-defense systems, and 63% of Americans thought the US should do more to end the Syrian conflict. Even more, 66% of respondents said they supported the Trump administration’s strike last week specifically.

This mirrored results of another recent poll from CBS News in which 57% of Americans said they approved of the US strike. A Pew Research Center survey from this week showed a similar level of support, with 58% of Americans approving of the strike.

The recent polls hint at changing American thought on involvement in Syria.

In 2013, after another brutal chemical weapons attack linked to the Assad regime, only 36% of Americans said they favored the US taking military action to reduce the Syrian government’s ability to use chemical weapons. Gallup noted that it was “among the lowest” figure of support “for any intervention Gallup has asked about in the last 20 years.”

In another Gallup poll from earlier that year, before the chemical attack, 68% of Americans said they opposed military action to end the Syrian conflict even if “all economic and diplomatic efforts fail.”]