It appears the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, namely Sarin, on its own citizens. It’s only human to feel grief and outrage. Something needs to be done.
The frustrating truth is, we’re not the ones to do it. Sryia poses no direct threat to the United States or its interests. Military action on our part is simply not justified. It would be nice to see the United Nations grow a pair and intervene, but we have no real authority to act on our own. To do so is to engage in exactly the sort of overbearing forced regime changes we so resent Vladimir Putin for doing.
It is also a complete violation of a very significant campaign promise made by Donald Trump, which gives me pause. Trump ran on the idea that we wouldn’t get involved in things like this, that we wouldn’t become the world’s policeman, and that he’d pursue a Wilsonian “America First” sort of isolationism. Continued...