“Fixing runways is not that hard and only a temporary measure.”
True enough, but not germane, as we didn’t destroy any.
I think the rest of your post really gets to the meat and potatoes of Trump’s move, though. Y’ever watch that 1987 film “The Untouchables” about Eliot Ness taking down Al Capone? The U.S. missile strike was like our way of leaving some bloody writing on Assad’s living room walls.
“The U.S. missile strike was like our way of leaving some bloody writing on Assad’s living room walls.”
The bloody writing needed to be on the rebels walls. No cruise missiles have hit them at all so far. ISIS HQ in Raqqa is right there, intact, and everyone knows where it is.