Good point.
If candidate Trump was the gold standard, then President Trump seems to qualify as more Never-Trump than does Bill Kristol.
It is fun, and useful, to analyze which bad guys are less bad in Syria. But the Trump of today is absolutely not the Trump of the campaign trail when it comes to Syria.
I'm not Never-Trump on Syria. I'm Original-Trump!
Also, all the talk about Trump having more info than we do so... shut up, is kinda silly. Ask Teresa May, she is not convinced it was Assad yet either.
And it doesn't matter either way. It's not like Assad was good during the campaign and now he is bad.
If Trump has experienced some neo-con conversion, then he should be honest about it and make a clear case that pipelines and such are worth our blood and treasure. This misguided notion that we must mobilize and kill people because somebody did something bad to a relatively small number of other people, who for the most part hate us too, is going to keep us quite busy doing exactly what Trump promised we would not.
Bolton