Americans hated the idea of strikes against Syria in 2013

[struggle4progress]

By Scott Clement
April 7 at 3:14 PM

... while it will take days to gauge Americans' reactions to Friday's strikes, history shows public support for military action can shift dramatically in the wake of it actually happening. And the somewhat tepid bipartisan congressional support we're seeing for Trump's move could provide a significant boost ...



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/07/military-strikes-in-syria-were-very-unpopular-four-years-ago-but-trumps-could-be-different/

[Warpy]

1. That gives me some hope

Apparently the news has gotten out that there are so many factions among the rebels and so many opportunists who have flocked there because they like to fight wars (DAESH and Al Quaeda, for instance) that you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys, if any.

We do know Assad is a thug of the first order. We also know it's irresponsible to tweak Putin's nose too hard. And we've all seen the videos of kids gasping for air after attacks for 6 years. What we never know is exactly who lobbed the gas bombs, too many players to figure it out.