No good will come of Trump's Syria strike

Do not listen to the puerile bleating of media sheep. Trump’s Syria strike is a horrifying disaster.

This is the president's first military action.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

On Thursday night, the Trump administration abruptly announced that it had launched more than 50 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield, in retaliation for the apparent use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians by Bashar al-Assad.

This is a wildly dangerous and probably illegal action from President Trump, one which will almost certainly achieve nothing positive of substance, and risks entanglement and a shooting war with Russia.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.