You can’t keep bombing and sending missiles without some eventually coming back in the other direction. One day somebody is going to shoot back.
Where have you been since like Tehran 1979? No, make that the 6-day war 1967? No, make that the Barbary Pirates in 1801? No, make that....
If we hit something Russian, what would stop some destroyer from lobbing a cruise missile into Portland ME, or Seattle?
A lot of talk about targeting Syrian aircraft on the ground and the airports they operate at. If the coalition degrades the operational capabilities of the Syrian AF to mount conventional air strikes, won’t that actually make them MORE likely to use unconventional weapons like... poison gas?