Absolutely. Assad is a murderous tyrant who gassed his own people-he must be punished. If the US failed to act as Obama did in 2013, it would show the US and international law are toothless and have no bark to their bite. While intervention has risks, continuing the slaughter in Syria and allowing Assad to gas his people unabated would be a far bigger risk. Assad invited the strike through his own actions. This should have been done years ago.
This is my view exactly. The only thing I'd add is that this strike was perfectly justifiable under international law. An attack on Syria based on responsibility to protect is not aggression; just the opposite. All countries have an obligation to take any action necessary to stop a
jus cogens offense and if the administration is arguing that this small attack is all that is necessary to stop the further use of chemical weapons then there's no problem with it.
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