In the wake of the U.S. missile strikes against Syrian military targets late Thursday, speculation swirled about what the next step was and what the country’s Syria policy would be going forward. One such speculator was CNN’s resident plagiarist Fareed Zakaria who had a plethora of questions for President Trump. He warned that the strikes could be aiding ISIS. “Are we now saying we’re against Assad? Do we want to strengthen ISIS? Do we want the Assad regime to fall?” he wondered.

“If so, are we willing to commit ourselves to that goal?” he continued to ask, “If not, we've just thrown bombs in the middle of one of the most complex civil wars in the country and now we're going to step back and say, ‘Well that's it, we're done.’”

Zakaria agreed on a base level with the strikes saying, “there is a kind of morally affirming element to this act—this military act.” But he couldn’t figure out if the Trump administration had a long-term political strategy he was trying to achieve:

But you know military strategist Samuel Huntington used to say “military force is not a good instrument of communication, it is an instrument of compelance.” You have to have something you are trying to get the other side to do. A political strategy that you’re using the force for. What is our political strategy? … But what is the political strategy behind it? Are we now going to try and topple the Assad government? If so, that means tens of thousands of troops on the ground. If not, what exactly have we active?

He seemed to caution that if there was no such strategy coming from the administration that Trump risked helping ISIS. “There is a danger that we effectively acted as ISIS’s air force. Because anything that weakens Assad in a strategic sense in Syria strengthens ISIS. Those are the two principal players on the ground,” he argued.

But the strikes do get some retribution for the innocent lives taken by the butcher Assad in the gas attack since the air base hit is where the attack reportedly originated from. And it’s sort of hard to seriously argue that strikes on Assad are helping ISIS when the U.S. is mobilized against them and is driving them out of Iraq.

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