There were arguments that intervention in Libya was not in the U.S. national security interest

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Your most important sentence...

"If they go foward with the strike, I doubt anyone will be disappointed when Assad loses his ability to launch more chemical attacks."

and then it begins - then what? and...What if he doesn't lose his ability? What if it then brings other players into this - and then what? And that's only a very few of the many questions that emerge - it becomes a very difficult multi-variable problem.

and is it strike or strikes? and for how long? how long to wait in between? what if...what if....

Beyond my difficulty in trusting politicians, it is the complexity of what happens after strike or strikes that just becomes impossible to sort, and very few if any of the possible outcomes are good ones.