This post first appeared on Daily Caller.
The blast from the 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles, which President Trump ordered to strike the al-Shayrat airfield in Syria on Thursday, has since reverberated around the world. Many Americans are still waiting for the smoke to clear, to make sense of exactly what happened and why.
President Trump and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are unanimous in their conviction that the regime of Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on his own people, thus justifying the attack. Everyday Americans are rightly skeptical when it comes to weapons of mass destruction being used to justify a possible war. We’ve heard it before.