You had to know that at some point, Trump was going to want a war named after him.



Which leads us to today – after weeks of “Syria … attack” headlines, The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration has considered new military action against the Syrian government in response to reports of ongoing chemical weapons use, officials said, raising the prospect of a second U.S. strike on President Bashar al-Assad in less than a year.

The president reportedly requested options for punishing the Assad government following reported chlorine gas attacks – at least seven so far this year – and possibly other chemicals affecting civilians in opposition-controlled areas.

...Notably, WaPo reports that Mattis was “adamantly” against a military response to recent chlorine attacks, but McMaster “was for it.”

So the guy named "Mad Dog" thinks that bombing Syria is a bad idea.

However, it gets worse.



There were reports as recently as Friday that the Trump Administration wanted such attacks to be “equal to or greater than the one used last year,” and while that’s clearly not set in stone, such an attack is likely to further cement the US as being in open warfare against the Syrian government.

So it's going to be bigger than last time.

However, it gets worse.



Speaking to an estimated 18,000 pro-Israel activists on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised President Donald Trump for promising to counter threats to the Jewish state posed by Iran.

In Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and especially Syria, Iran is trying to build an empire that would threaten Israel's existence, Netanyahu told the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

"In addition to moving its army, its air force, its navy to Syria to be able to attack Israel from closer at hand, it’s also seeking to develop, to build precision-guided missile factories in Syria and Lebanon against Israel," Netanyahu said. "I will not let that happen."

He said Trump "has made it clear that his administration will not accept Iran’s aggression in the region.

So who exactly will we be bombing in Syria?

You know, that nation Trump claimed that we have the legal authority to keep U.S. forces in indefinitely (and Iraq too).

There's another difference this time. Our Kurdish allies won't be there for us.

No, literally. The Kurds simply won't be there.



Kurdish-allied Syrian Arab militias are redeploying 1,700 fighters from fronts against Islamic State to the Afrin region to help fend off a Turkish offensive, they said on Tuesday.

“We have taken out around 1,700 fighters ... to defend Afrin against terrorism,” said Abu Omar al-Edilbi, the spokesman for the militias, which have been fighting in eastern Syria as part of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The Kurds are very unhappy with the U.S.

So the next time our forces in Syria clash with Assad's forces we'll be one our own, because they'll be allies of Assad.