This deafeningly hysterical show of Syria as Iraq 2.0 is only happening because a president of the United States (POTUS) created a “credibility“ problem when, recklessly, he pronounced the use of chemical weapons in Syria a “red line“.

Thus the US government urgently needs to punish the transgressor – to hell with evidence – to maintain its “credibility“. But this time it will be “limited“. “Tailored“. Only “a few days“. A “shot across the bow“ – as POTUS qualified it. Still, some – but not all – “high-value targets“, including command and control facilities and delivery systems, in Syria will have to welcome a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles (384 are already positioned in the eastern Mediterranean).