Not officially. I know the quasi war. But I mean full mobilezation. when was the last time Napoleon did anything half assed?
“Half-assed” is a big part of the issue here. Obama has already said there will be no American troops on the ground, so what exactly will a missile strike do? Force Assad to the bargaining table with al-Qaeda? And how do we want THOSE negotiations to turn out? Or perhaps our missile strike destroys the government buildings and kills Assad? Then what? Does al-Qaeda take over? Are we then committed to troops on the ground and another round of nation-building? What’s the end-game of a missile strike? Can we even know?