Playing war in Syria

Donald Trump got "presidential" again and fired about $150 million worth of cruise missiles at Syria, accomplishing God knows what.

Meanwhile, the United States, in its humanitarian largesse, has so far allowed 11 Syrian refugees into the country this year, of the more than 5 million external refugees the country's civil war has produced.

The insanity of these priorities is too much to fathom, so the mainstream media -- the nation's surface consciousness -- makes no attempt to do so. The necessity of military action, for one justification or another ("we don't want the smoking