The media and government wants us to believe that days after being let off the hook, Assad for absolutely no reason used sarin gas on his own people, mostly children.

This.

People understandably get emotional over such events, but American media culture is showing mega flaws in effectively thinking / talking about all serious situations critically.

Evidently, in today's culture "critically" means find someone to blame based on feelings. That is all public discourse is good for.thus the PC culture is to mitigate eventual blame upon oneself.

Syria was on the shit list after 9/11 because they opposed joining alliances to depose of Saddam Hussein. Evidently the on-going strategy is to have the government spinsters say "I told you so!" with stupidity as the motive.

With this kind of rational floating along the airwaves, there should be little doubt that the Gov. needs the populous irrational if not insane.

The public of the United States needs to bring back the draft or create mandatory uniformed service to take back control as the stakeholders in soverignty. The world is educated enough not to appreciate a military that goes on mercenary expeditions using the blood and treasure of the public's willingness to be misled to salve the pangs of outrageous fortune of mass cultural hegemony.