Well, Syria's broken agreement not to use chemical weapons aside ....this is our war by proxy.
Why OUR WAR and not the UN's? THEY were the ones Assad signed the agreement with. Let them enforce the penalties for violation for a change. I have no interest in supporting a war with Russia by proxy when it has already been proven that Islamists will use WMD weapons to garner support for overthrowing Assad by pinning such acts on him. What a cluster! There are no good options or outcomes by being directly involved in this war Obama ignited.
Syrian refugees are changing Western civilization before our very eyes ... and not in a good way, as you know. The surest way to secure our borders from this new invasion is to end the civil war in Syria and reduce the number of refuges created by it.
Shows how naive you are about what the Islamists themselves have had to say and what they are instructing their fellow Muslims to do in terms of staging an immigration invasion of the West. Syria is just a convenient excuse to flood military age males into Europe for the Caliphate in much larger numbers.
The 'surest way' to secure our borders? How about no admittance from anyone from Syria and the whole region? That would end the problem right there as far as our security goes, and not a single US life has to be risked trying to end the struggles between Islamist zealots struggling to install a Caliphate and a tinpot dictator who hates Israel while acting in concert with Hamas and Hezbollah.
Then too there's the fact that we are fiscally broke and in debt in concert with the damage from Obama's tenure as king not even fully realized yet.
Hopefully, Russia now realizes there is a new sheriff in town, and his red lines have meaning.
Russia if anything knows how weak and limited our force projection is at the moment given the gutting the last 8 years have wrought. Giving them a reason to see just how weak we actually are is a bit foolhardy, should Putin decide that now is the time to push back hard.
Let's also hope the West can now rally itself around this action and move all players closer to the negotiating table.
Because negotiating with dictators and/or Islamists hell-bent on a Caliphate is always a trustworthy exercise in futility.
Obama ignited this 'Arab Spring'. We are being drawn into a lose, lose situation.