AA, two thoughts:
1. Don't sugar coat it, tell us how you really feel.
2. What President Obama proposes doesn't put a lot of people into harms way. It mostly blows a few things up to send a message, and then ... well, look at how Clintonian diplomacy via Tomahawk with Iraq worked out.
Not much changed.
I don't see boots on ground in Syria any time soon.
Here's a thought:
What if the intent is one of those Rummy-style decapitation strikes? As Reagan tried with the Mad Colonel in Libya, and it didn't quite go off as planned, President Obama may be trying to set up a brief rain of high explosives that, when the dust clears, finds B Assad in a body bag.
Given his hunger for the surgical strike and drone warfare for the past five years, the TLAMs may be a red herring, as would be the SEAD effort in support of them, while a few Reapers or Preds drop by for a present delivered in their usual way.
That would send a message of a completely different sort than we are used to seeing. No idea if such a COA is what's on tap, but it would be different than the same old same old ... and we would have, of course, done Al Q in Syria's dirty work for them.
That's the part I am very much not happy about, in all this talk about taking Assad down.
Who do you think follows that asshole?