US attacks Syria

If you use nerve gas on children you get bombed........those are the rules.

I hope we now make a concerted effort to find Assad and kill him.  And for the record, I care not one bit about the politics at play in Syria.  Assad crossed a line. Hunt him down and kill him.

“I am writing to request that you call the House back in session immediately to debate any decision to place our men and women in uniform in harm’s way,” the California Democrat wrote in a letter Ryan on Friday.  “The President’s action and any response demands that we immediately do our duty,” Pelosi added. “Congress must live up to its Constitutional responsibility to debate an Authorization of the Use of Military Force against a sovereign nation.”

She is absolutely right and is not demonizing the attack.  The Congress, not the President, has the power to make war.  This was not in response to the US being attacked.  This action, just as the actions taken by President Obama in Libya, require authorization by Congress - under the US Constitution.  Congress has abdicated way too much of its authority to the executive branch - all members of congress, regardless of party affiliation, should support calling for a debate on an AUMF.  

Nah......that ship sailed to Vietnam.  President Trump was well within his power and duty to order this strike. The precedents run through decades of Presidential administrations.  In the current climate Pelosi and the rest of the Dems can't be trusted to act in any way except contempt toward, and undermining of, our President.  As far as I'm concerned she can take a seat and shut up.

I can't stand Pelosi, but I agree with this. This might be the first time I've ever admitted to agreeing with something she said. You know our current president is crazy when I start agreeing with Pelosi. ;) ;) 

I think our government has the responsibility to intelligently discuss, in a bipartisan manner, any action which puts our troops at risk. Trump ordering the attack is within his right as President, and not out of the norm given the precedent of previous actions in the last 50 years, but that doesn't mean other representatives of our government don't have a responsibility to make sure any foreign conflict is done with a plan of action. Meddling in the Middle East is not simply a matter of sending a few missiles and walking away - our actions in Iraq, if nothing else, should have taught us that. I would hope our representatives and military would be working together to determine an intelligent plan of action for coming days, and working with our allies as well. It's not as simple as dropping some bombs to show we've got big guns.

Both you and Hook 'em can always make me think in a different line and I appreciate that.  Not on this one.  Assad used chemical weapons against his own people.  The entire world has already decided we won't tolerate that.  I don't give a rats arse what some congressman thinks the President should do in that case....ANY President.  Bomb and kill the bastard who did it.  Period.

That being said, I doubt that Trump or anyone in this country wants to get involved in regime change in Syria.  Like you said, Iraq and countless other conflicts have taught us that (or it damn well should have).  However, the United States has no choice but to act as the world's police in a case like this.  We have the will and the means and it must be done for all of mankind.  Every single one of our allies understands this.  Besides being a wack job, Pelosi wants to play politics with the bodies of people gassed to death.  Fork her!

I don't quibble with the President's use of force in response to Assad's use of chemical weapons - I agree with you there that it absolutely shouldn't be tolerated.

My point was more along the lines of thinking that I would hope our government would developing a more complex plan for the response than the President ordering some missiles be fired. i.e. What do we do next?? I don't think that decision should be left up to Trump alone, and therefore, I agree with Pelosi indicating that the House should convene to discuss. They shouldn't be sitting around eating bonbons when we just dropped missiles. 

I don't think we should "over think" this.  Trump has already said, through his Sec State, that they will not seek regime change.  No reason not to take him at his word.  Maybe it's nothing more then, "go ahead with your civil war, but you won't do THAT".  Hell, why do we have to do anything next? (except for bomb him again if he uses chemicals again)