Charles Krauthammer critical of airstrikes: "The whipsaw here is quite remarkable...if you’re going to announce a policy and then you revoke it three days later because of the President’s emotional reaction to pictures...you’ve got to wonder about the stability of the foreign policy."

How many times am I going to come into a thread to try and say something only to see you've beat me to it and done it more thoroughly than I would've?

I'm not excited about bombing Syria, but I think there's a good argument fur doing it. Isolationism isn't helpful. But if you're going to do something like this, it needs to be considered very carefully and involve the right people. Instead we had Congress and the State department and the UN and our allies learn of the missile attacks the same way the rest of the world did, from the evening news. There was not even an attempt to build consensus.

And while this time it looks like consensus was achieved after the fact, who's to say the next time he wants to bomb someone it will be equally popular? He could decide he needs to do a similar strike against Iran or North Korea and we wouldn't know until it was done. It could've happened already while I type this. Does anyone trust him with that kind of authority? He's emotionally unstable and is getting all kinds of praise for launching 50 missiles from Mar a Lago, what lesson do we think he learned from this? Certainly not that this is serious and there are dire consequences.

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