As Obama Led From Behind...

...and fled from his own Red Line:

UN: Syrian regime used chemical weapons more than two dozen times

Syrian forces used chemical weapons at least 27 times over the course of the civil war, UN investigators have found. The UN report also decries the US for failing to protect civilians in its attacks on Islamist forces.

Trump was right to fire those missiles at Assad's weapons dump. And the Russians should be excoriated for supporting Assad and his violations of human rights.

Obama's flight from his own Red Line was a human rights atrocity, due to his blatant and unquestionable cowardice. After all, had he acted, he might have lost his creds with the Left.

Latest on Syria/Sarin

April 11@10:18 AM • Bridget Johnson

NEWS: National Security Council officials just held a background briefing with reporters on the declassified intel assessment of last week's chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun, Syria. Full story coming soon, but a few takeaways:

Sarin confirmed as the nerve agent used via testing on victims as well as symptoms. Secondary responders also suffered exposure symptoms.

Su-22s from Shayrat airfield dropped the sarin on Khan Shaykhun; conventional weapons were dropped about six hours later on hospital treating sarin victims - "no comment" from officials on if Russia did latter.

No ISIS or other terrorists in area have sarin (just mustard gas) - attack was "not a terrorist holding of sarin or a terrorist use of sarin"

WH official on if Russia, present at airfield, knew of sarin attack: "We don't have information on that per se... still looking into that." Adding: "We do think that it is a question worth asking" Russians how they were with Syrian forces at airfield "and did not have knowledge" of the attack in planning/prep stages.

"Leakage inconsistent" with Russians saying sarin came from opposition stocks on ground - "we don't see a building with that chemical residue"

On Syria hoax conspiracy theories: Body of evidence "too massive" for anyone to fabricate. Official added that videos released of attack did correspond with that date, time, location.

A Third Possibility

Perhaps the Cruise Missiles on the Syrian air field were a negotiating tactic in an upstream deal: a signaling method.

The Media's Missing the Point: Syria, Empire and the Power of Signaling
Trying to reduce the carefully choreographed drama to one stage and one audience risks misunderstanding the signal.

Who actually knows what's going on anymore?