No doubt the military convinced trump to sign the order to launch the missiles, and no doubt as some

[still_one]

have pointed out, trump was only too willing to sign it, not only to distract away from his scandals, but to demonstrate just how macho he thinks he is.

During the Cuban Missile crisis, Curtis E. Lemay and a few other generals were trying to encourage John Kennedy to make a first strike with nuclear weapons against Russia. If someone like trump was in charge then instead of Kennedy, we might not be discussing this now

[WhiteTara]

1. He also got to show off in front of the Chinese president

Trump got to let him know that he had big hands.

[still_one]

3. A lot of people may be killed for trump's ego.

[WhiteTara]

8. That's the tragedy. nt

[KittyWampus]

2. Ultimately this seems to by symbolic and thus the optics are paramount.

[still_one]

4. no doubt Kitty, but it is also concerning if he feels so empowered to take on North Korea, things

could get bad very quickly

[KittyWampus]

5. Agreed. I do not know what I feel about this. Ambivalent. And a bit worried.

[still_one]

7. I am very mixed about it also

[IggleDuer]

6. Apparently, Trump ordered a strike on the base where the chemical attacks were started.

Anyone consider more poison gas might be stored there? If one our missles blew up the gas storage facility, we might be charged with releasing poison gas. Sad!

[EX500rider]

9. No, don't think so

Experts say the explosion resulting from an air strike on a chemical weapons facility would most likely incinerate any agents. Sarin and other nerve agents are also usually stocked in a "binary manner", which means they are kept as two distinct chemical precursors that are combined just before use, either manually or automatically inside a weapon when launched.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39500947

[burrowowl]

10. K&R!!!!!!