MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s decision to bomb a Syrian airfield with 59 missiles Thursday [4-6-17] night is being questioned by some U.S. veterans who had previously been deployed to the Middle East.
One criticism revolves around a seeming lack of a clear end goal; for example, Evan McAllister, a Marine scout and sniper who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, told the website LifeZette, ‘The foreign policy I was ultimately hoping for is one that abides by the belief that nation building, mission creep, and counterinsurgency without a clear end-state are horrible courses of action…our military simply doesn’t exist for that purpose.’
Meanwhile, Democratic Representative Seth Moulton, also an Iraq War veteran, said on CNN Friday, ‘We don’t really know what we’re fighting for in Syria. And, fundamentally, that’s just not fair to our troops.’ “
-AOL News, “US missile strike against Syria being questioned by some Iraq war veterans,” AOL.com, April 10, 2017