US, UK, & France bomb Syria.

Assad is a monster. It may be the case that a military response is appropriate (though I personally find it a tad hypocritical for the US when we are shutting out desperate refugees from the area).

But

(1) I concur with Vince that I don't trut this batshit, temper-tantrum prone president with bombs and military decisions

(2) in any case, even with a good president, presidents shouldn't be able to do this shit without Congress's authorization. We need to repeal the President being able to do this--the time is more than ripe.

(3) this is all the worse because of the Trump administration's skeleton crew -- no secretary of state, the entire WH in disarray...it's fucking terrifying.

(4) There are reports this morning from the French government that Russia was given advance warning. Gee, I wonder who by? (ETA: okay, I admit this may be unfair. There may have been good reason for this. But, yeah, yet again -- the trouble is, I can't trust Trump and what there is of his advisors enough to trust in this, especially when it comes to Russia.)

(5) anyone else struck by the fact that the timing of this strike is coming just after the Cohen raid, as Trump foams at the mouth over it on Twitter and is desperate for a bigly distraction?


ETA:

How much evidence have we that the alleged chemical weapons (a) ever existed (b) were dropped by government forces and (c) that the Syrian Government had any hand in it if so? The Trump regime seems to have been very hasty in bombing away the evidence, doesn't it?

Nah. The Deep State controls that.

What?



(Seriously, the one thing that gives any relief to my sense of unease is the involvement of Britain and France. It still concerns hell out of me, as a general matter, to have someone like Trump with this kind of power in his hands, but if two of our allies were involved, I'm more confident that this particular call might have been okay...so far. We'll see as things go forward.)

He's an evil son of a bitch who did it before?