The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization.

Missile strikes - or any other such action - against a sovereign nation is an act of war.

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

Trump himself has not laid out a clear agenda on the national security issues that are the most pressing for the United States, from the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the deepening Syrian civil war to the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the flexing of Russian muscles under President Vladimir Putin.

Trump has long said he favors a 'safe zone' in Syria to prevent Basher al Assad's regime from carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes against Syrian civilians and to halt the refugee flow out of Syria.

America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.