I support our troops, one hundred percent!
I served, (not that this is my point.) and I followed orders. Even the orders in which I had no belief.
Our bravest deserve to be taken into consideration before we are committed to engage them into another field of action. Congress has known about the situations brewing in Egypt, Syria and everywhere else in the region for some time now, and only when there are no other options, do they choose to relay it to the general public.
The president has a tough choice to make here, it will not be easy, and no matter his choices, he will not receive support from his congress.
If he says "go!' he's a demi-god who is out of control with power. if he says "no-go!" he's too weak to be the president.
Meanwhile, it is our military troops and families who suffer the most. If they go to fight, families are left to fend for themselves as they wait to see if their loved one will return in a state of wholeness. (There are more ways to be dead than not to be alive!)
We have seen these people pay a high-price ever since the decision to "go and get them!" made by the G.W.. Bush administration, and it's time for the ship to change course!
There may not be an option based upon on all of the "measuring" that is going on in the media. Who by the way, has made itself culpable in this situation by "pushing story" that may not have any legitimacy!
There is a problem in the region; we all agree on this point. But is that problem worth placing the lives of our brave troops in the balance, and still not solve the problem!? I have to say "no!" to that!
Assad is the a-hole that is in charge over there, whether or not the US government likes it.
I can only hope that we do not move too quickly in response, because one we've cast the first stone, they'll have to live, and die with the consequences which follow.