Interested -getting back to Trump and his advisors- to see how the fight for influence is being played out in the White House.
Apparently Bannon has taken a step backward with son-in-law Kushner becoming more influential. Kushner a previous Democrate is known as a hawk, and almost certainly was one of the advisors who were on the side of the Syrian attack. Kushner is like Trump totally unschooled in the art of world politics and Americas place in it, so we can but hope that Trump is being firmly guided by more experienced people.
The game of chess between Russia and America is being played out with the Middle East as background. In the pursuit of the terrorist - a stated Trump goal, I wonder how American intervention has helped this cause, and the suffering of the Syrian civilians. I think many IS and other jihadist must have given at least two cheers when they became aware of the assault on Assad by America. Putin has a lot to gain from this intervention with confusion as to what Trump intends to do next. On the one hand it is a "one off strike" on the other there may be other strikes. Let us hope that the White House at the very least thinks it knows what it's doing as so many countries who are toddling along in Americas wake need to hope so.
