“Not much bang for the American buck”
That’s just wrong...completely wrong. Aside from the REAL damage done...upwards of $700,000 worth, the political gain was huge. He showed the American people what a President should do in defense of women and children, unlike Obama. He just slipped the script on the Democrats.
Obama’s red line decision got rebuked this week (and his former staff aren’t happy about it)
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/08/obamas-red-line-decision-got-rebuked-this-week-and-his-former-staff-arent-happy/
But not everyone who was part of the previous administration is playing defense for their former boss this week. Politico Magazine reports some Obama alumni say the strike was long overdue:
Many of the most head-snapping comments I heard came from Obama’s own top advisers, who had long pushed him to confront Assad more aggressively and viewed his 2013 refusal to take military action against Syria after drawing a “red line” on chemical weapons use as a major American foreign policy debacle. There’s no love lost for Trump in this group, whose members found themselves in the uncomfortable position of cheering a leader they still both loathe and fear.
“Our administration never would have gotten this done in 48 hours,” one former senior official of the Obama administration told me. “IT”S A COMPLETE INDICTMENT OF OBAMA.”
“I feel like finally we have done the right thing,” Anne-Marie Slaughter, who served as Obama’s first-term chief of policy planning at the State Department and long publicly urged a more forceful response to Assad’s horrific attacks on civilians during the six years of war that have wracked Syria, told me. “The years of hypocrisy just hurt us all. It undermined the U.S., it undermined the world order.”
That quote about this strike being a “complete indictment” of Obama is really the key. If you had any doubt why many of the former president’s aides are upset about the strike, that’s why.