I think enough dumb ass Repubs in the House will vote yes and it will pass. The Senate will rubber stamp it also. If this was not bad enough, the Russian are sending ships in that area. One screw up and we will have World War III on our hands. We will really look stupid if the Russian provoke an attack and that sissy in the W.H. house does not do nothing but open his stupid mouth. I have absolutely no confidence in that moron and coward.
The Russians would actually be on the legal high ground if they
did intervene in our attack and tried to shoot down anything flying into Syria. We haven't been attacked, no ally of ours has been attacked, no attack on either one by Syria is imminent, and the UN has not authorized military force against Assad, hence any attack by us is an act of aggression under international law. The Russians would be acting within accepted international law (Not just BS 'Norms') to use military force against anything we send in, since Syria is their ally and would be the victim of any such act of aggression.
So if this stupid idea actually gets executed, it had better be with purely-unpiloted vehicles like Tomahawks instead of any manned aircraft, or we may be finding out a lot more than we wanted to know about the latest developments in Russian air defense, interceptor, and AWACS technology vs. Stealth bombers. While the Russians could attack the launch platforms with the same legality, it's pretty unlikely the Russian Federation Navy really wants to get into ship-to-ship combat with us.
