Tomahawk Launches Practiced by U.S. Before Trump Gave Go-AheadThe Navy says it’s buying the last 100 Tomahawks this year before ending production in favor of upgrades to the inventory and starting development on a successor “Next Generation Land Attack Weapon.”
Now all we have to answer is, was this the right thing to do?
Anytime military force is used, it seems like someone comes out of the woodwork claiming it was not necessary. Really? As if Der Fuhrer would have just set aside his world domination dreams just to make some peaceniks happy. and BTW no calling "Godwin's law" here. This is a manly site (apologies to the babe, who really doesn't count as a man [thank God], but does understand the message and idea behind the phrase). If we were to use Godwin's law, it would be the true idea behind it (that by bringing up the Nazis, we recall the horror and devastation they wrought) and not the stupid corollary (you automatically lose the argument). In this instance actually, the idea of bringing up Hitler was to emphasize the terror he created so maybe acknowledging Godwin's law in this case is being true to its original intent.
Too many believe that this must bring forth an escalation of force in the Middle East, they cite the fact that in the past ten to twenty years that when we have interfered in that area, we have just brought more grief to all parties concerned.
To all that I say hogwash
If we take a look a Donald Trump, we can see a candidate and president who has modeled himself after Ronald Reagan. Now one of the things that President Reagan did was the send a one time message to Muammar Gaddafi and while Gaddafi postured afterward about Reagan missing his target (Gaddafi), We didn't hear much from Libya until the botched affairs by the Obama administration set the country in a turmoil.
We need to sit back now, keep a watchful eye and evaluate the reactions to the attack. At least that's my thoughts.