Is it worth risking a regional war in order to launch an ineffective strike against an enemy who is likely innocent, in pursuit of non-existent US security interests?
This fact has been scrubbed by our domestic propaganda apparatus, but it is my understanding Russia has threatened a strike against Saudi Arabia if we hit Syria. And why not? The Saudis have apparently threatened to deploy Chechen terrorists they claim to control, and seem to have provided the nerve gas in what we can all agree WAS a nerve gas attack. Thing is, they gave them to the “rebels”.