The US attacks Syria without an Act of War.

The press is falling all over themselves to say that Trump is doing what Obama didn’t, the last time President Bashar Al-Assad used poison gas: start a war.  And almost everyone is quoting the White House to call this response “proportional.”

Obama, in 2013, drew what he called a red line on the use of poison gas.  When President Assad did use Sarin gas, Obama asked Congress for authority to declare war.  Remember that only Congress has the Constitutional authority to declare war; not the President.  While Obama could use the blank check that Congress gave President Bush a decade before, it would have been an abuse of that authority, and he chose not to.

Congress did nothing.  And then they blamed Obama for not doing more.  As always.  And Trump, who at the time clearly wrote, over and over, “Don’t attack Syria!!”, blamed Obama for not having attacked Syria.

So now, without so much as an acknowledgement of the Constitution, Trump has committed an act of war by launching 60 Tomahawk missiles against the airfield that launched the airplanes that dropped the chemical bombs.

This attack created potholes in their runways. The attack didn’t target the Syrian air force or air defense, just that one airfield.  It’s mostly a political action, not a military one.  All the press are calling it a “signal” as if they’re quoting someone else.

There are thousands of Russian troops on the ground in Syria.  The next question is whether this will intimidate Trump.