To French's point, when the country (ours) is so obsessed with dumbass Twitter tweets, Facebook rantings, and the color of DJT's underwear that it can't acknowledge the shitstorm that is (and has been) Syria, it's time to rethink the policy.
For 300 Russians to get waxed in a one-sided encounter with U.S. troops who likely had no idea Russkies were mixed up with the bad guys, well, that's the Cold War all over again.
Can't have that. We won that one, didn't we?