Look. I tell ya what. Frankly, I don’t CARE if this moron ‘takes credit’ for this. One strike and the Russians would feel almost obligated to stop it best they can and possibly retaliate... and that would be wayyyy to close to nuclear war for my tastes.
I will damn TAKE IT.
However, there’s no win here. Let me explain why. This has NOTHING to do with chemical weapons, and EVERYTHING to do with the Saudis and Qatar wanting a natgas pipeline through Syria, to Europe. Russia does NOT want that, they have a lock on Europe’s natural gas, and they are broke. So this issue is not solved.
I predict, a month (maybe two) goes by, and another chem ‘attack’ is orchestrated by Saudi and rebel operatives, so the US can falsely claim Syria held some weapons back and used them again.
Ok, so, given the choice between nuke war now, or nuke war a month or two from now, I’ll take the latter.
I really don’t CARE if Obama takes credit. Only the liberals will buy it; middle- and right-wingers already know how horribly this whole affair was bungled.
As an analogy: Let us say some hikers decide to climb a mountain in the dead of winter, and become terribly stranded halfway up. If they happen upon a small cabin with supplies and survive until winter passes, then make it back down again, do you congratulate them on their ingenuity for finding the cabin? Or do you cuss their damn-foolishness for climbing a mountain in winter to begin with?
It’s not about natural gas, oil, or any pipeline.