The image of children writhing in pain and gasping for air as they were asphyxiated and choked to an airless death was gut wrenching. It was a sight surmountable in its moral outrage only by an erratic, polls-driven, reactionary, and symbolic tomahawk bomb show, as we have seen tonight.

Given his sustained demonization of the Syrian refugees, Donald Trump, with an approval rating sitting in the lower thirties, the worst of any US president in their first 100 days in office, lacks every shred of credibility to engage in a sham and symbolic air campaign in Syria.

This is a guy who rode to power by stoking an anti-refugee sentiment among his xenophobic supporters, making it the centerpiece of his campaign. This is a man who believed that President Obama should not go into Syria without congressional approval. What changed? What changed was not the use of chemical nerve agents by Bashir al-Assad on his Syrian population; after all, this will not be his first time.

The first time Assad was known to have gassed his own people, Donald Trump was opposed to any military action by the then Obama administration without a congressional approval. Yet, here we have President Trump raining down 59 tomahawk missiles on Syrian airfield without a congressional approval. So Assad’s deployment of sarin gas on his people is not what changed. Neither is it the image of children gasping for air and rapidly expiring in airless death. We have seen similar images before. Who could forget the gut wrenching image of three-year old Alan Kurdi washed ashore on Turkish beach?

As much as Donald Trump wants us to believe that it is the images of gassed and gasping children that changed his attitude toward Assad and Syria, truth is he is lying. The images of children in distress have never bothered Donald Trump. If they did, the image of 3-year old Alan Kurdi on a Turkish beach in December of 2015 would have tamed Trump’s anti-Syrian refugee campaign.

So, moral outrage at Assad’s savage gas attack on innocent children was not the game changer that Donald Trump claims it is. Here is the game changer. Donald Trump is pitifully sitting at a 34% approval rating. He has done a horrible job of leadership. Everyday and every boneheaded action and tweet of his have continued to sink his approval rating.

Donald Trump is an immoral opportunist. He seeks to exploit the opportunity of the images of gassed and gasping Syrian children to shore up his plummeting approval rating. How can Donald Trump be affected by the images of the gassed and gasping Syrian children when he has cut funding for after school lunch for poor American children? How can Donald Trump lie through his teeth about his nonexistent compassion when he has cut funding for meals on wheels for poor American folks? How can Donald Trump assert moral imagery when he has not given up on his campaign to ban immigrants from Syria and other selected Muslim nations? If Donald Trump were a man of...

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