[St Charles Owl]

No I'm not trying to justify the bombing, I am neutral on it to be honest. The use of chemical weapons is horrible, particularly on civilians, and I think there is enough evidence to show that Damascus ordered their use once again. So what do we do about it?? Thats the hard question we need to be answering and I for sure don't know the answer to that. Will bombing these particular targets achieve anything, only time will tell but as we have seen in previous bombings I suspect the heads-up was given to the Russians and thats likely why there were no casualties.

I'm not convinced this type of keyhole bombing ever works, the idea of military action is it should drive fear into the hearts of those who are being targeted, whether that be civilians or in particular those in power. If we actually threatened the use of bombs directly against the leaders in Syria if they ever use chemical weapons again, then we might actually see a change but I am not sure there is an appetite nor need for anyone to do that, so we will likely keep bombing these "key targets" as a proportional response to event such as this. None of the Nato countries want to put feet on the ground in any great numbers over there, so we will end up leaving it to the Russians to ultimately sort it out and as a consequence we will see regime after regime that essentially is a puppet of their government instead of ours!! That is all the Middle East has become, fake allies for each side of a fake cold war, and a ton of rhetoric coming out of both sides!!