Will Trump bomb Assad?

[Pericles]

How can he do that, without Russian permission (as when Israel bombs Hezbollah commanders in Syria)?

We dont need Russian permission.

Do you want a nuclear confrontation?

No but we're not a Russian vassal state either.

Just a simple question, did Syrian government allow US troops and airforces come to Syrian soil?

Assad has no legitimacy as the Syrian government. The world has a responsibility to stop the murder of innocent civilians. I don't think ground troops should be sent to Syria, but I think a Libya-style intervention would be in order. At the very least, safe zones and a no-fly zone should be formed to protect civilians from Assad's brutality.

[Pericles]

The US should have intervened way back in 2012 or 2013-Obama drew the red line and he should have stood by it.

[Pericles]

I don't support ground troops and only those against intervention pretend that's on the table. But there are other better ways to interevene, far better than allowing Assad to continue his slaughter unpunished and lettingthe Syrian war slip into even deeper depths of depravity. Avoiding war and the disaster of the Bush presidency is good, but appeasement and acceptance of war crimes and the slaughter of civilians is not and so appropriate measures to stop Assad must be taken.

[Pericles]

A broken clock is right twice a day. Hopefully this is one of those two times.

[Pericles]

Looks like I underestimated Trump. I thought he'd be a Russian puppet who admires murderous dictators.  Now he is bombing Assad?! That puts him above Obama on this issue at least.