So Obama launches a cruise missile attack. The obvious response is the Syrians “defend themselves” by attacking the ships launching the cruise missiles, likely the P-800 Oniks they bought from Russia, and probably supplied “advisors” to man the systems, and given targeting data from Putin as well.
Regardless how good the Aegis system of our surface warships to defend from the Russian missiles, some of these Mach 2.5 sea skimming missiles will probably find their mark, and we lose at least one surface combatant.
Dead sailors, lost prestige and credibility to the US, along with world wide spread pictures of dead Syrians from the cruise missiles that did (or didnt) get through the Russian manned S300 SAMs, the US loses a major military event, and we are lucky if it stops there.
Obama not only confirms why he has no credibility among allies such as GB, but confirms to the world he has no idea what he is doing.