Oh great, let's try and kill terrorists all while murdering civilians and create a bigger vacuum for terrorism. Lets not forget, terrorists don't just become terrorist, they usually lose their whole family at the hands of the US or it's own country before they claim jihad. Trumps decision to blow up Assasds Air Force is great because no civilian was killed (except if you consider Assasds foot soldiers a civilian, in which case six of those bastards were killed)

Mr. "Just the facts":

• Nine civilians were killed in one village (including four children)
• Four more were killed in two nearby villages
• Four soldiers were killed that included an air commodore.

The air strikes last night killed civilians too? I had not heard of this...

And finally we agree on something. Nobody seems to give a **** about the Law of Unintended Consequences, as if "six months from now" is something that happens other people. I wonder if we're all gonna wake up a week from now to hear that every member of Seal Team Six has been killed in a botched attempt on Assad's life, that might have succeeded if it hadn't been planned in thirty minutes.

Are you kidding? ISIS are in opposition to Assad's government. Just because ISIS is bad and Assad is bad doesn't mean they're on the same side.

That's not entirely true. There are several rebel groups in Syria and Assad's attacks are directed at some of the others more than at ISIS.

While I would be the first to agree with this as well, we have ****ed that region so hard for so long, the only way it will stabilize is if we pull out of the region COMPLETELY (not going to happen) or we fix it ourselves (only this time instead of saying we are spreading democracy while grabbin that oil and installing a despotic ruler that lets us do what we want, we actually try to prop up their governments with a legitimate democracy).

And what are the chances for either of those? I'll just be glad if we can keep our interventionism to a relative minimum (e.g. no invasions, and if we're going to bomb someone then please don't let it be just us led by a cowboy president). Our foreign policy is too unfocused and short-term oriented to hope for anything better atm, so saying "we need to do something" is tantamount to utopianism in the current climate.

It was a funny image in my head so I googled it and there it was

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClMgLdCUkAANx8_.jpg