For those against the attack, what should have been done after the chemical attacks?

[yurbud]

108. stop our allies from funding beheading "rebels," and ask our politicians what it is

they really want from Syria, so we can decide if it's worth killing people.

While average Americans care about dying children, those billionaires who determine our foreign policy and buy politicians to execute it do not.

Otherwise, we would not have dropped a single bomb anywhere after turning Iraq and Libya into sectarian dystopias of chaos and death.

Likewise, if we cared about human rights, democracy, respecting the borders of neighbors, and even supporting terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, we would not be supporting and arming Saudi Arabia, the worst of the worst in all those categories.

When you look at history, few wars have humanitarianism at their base with the possible exception of our Civil War.

And even the "Good War," was incidentally good. A lot of average Americans were glad to take out the racist Nazis and rightly so, but our elites saw it as an opportunity to pick up the pieces of the decaying British Empire.

If those at the top of our government hated fascists, they wouldn't have installed them in power in so many governments AFTER World War II, and backed them whenever the locals wanted higher wages, unions, land reform, or real democracy.