It's not surprising that the news media loved Trump's new pointless war against the Syrian government.

America's foreign policy is built upon simplistic and childish assumptions.
There are many ways to demonstrate this, but the most obvious and direct way is to ask the question, "...and then what?"

The bloody carnage of the last 16 years across N. Africa, the Levant, through Iraq to the borders of India has brought misery to hundreds of millions. The recent war crimes in Syria at the summit of the crimes committed.

The Global arms trade supplying both sides for profit.
Torture pardoned.
Regime change by various nefarious means.
The bombing of hospitals.
The use of banned weapons.
The crime that is pre-emptive war.
The murder of innocents.

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered...A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
- Martin Luther King, 1965

Some in the media are reporting that Trump handed Merkel a "bill" for 300 billion for U.S./NATO war and imperialism spending. The White House is saying that is not true but it doesn't matter, the narrative is out there and the people are swallowing it.

Now a strictly military action.

The Pentagon under President Donald Trump is enjoying greater freedom to run its wars the way it wants -- and not constantly seek White House approval on important decisions.

I wanted to write something but I didn't know what to write. So I thought I'd just write. It's like when you have so many fucking chores to do you don't know what to do first so you crack a beer, sit at your computer, and read deep political opinion essays.

I don't want to post this article from Rudaw, especially the slideshow of photographs, but we're grownups, right? We need to face the reality of our foreign policy.

http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/180320171

Mosul residents flee the city with dead bodies of loved ones
By Rudaw 18/3/2017

As President Trump considers escalating our invasion of Syria, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview with Chinese TV station Phoenix that the American media largely ignored.
Assad voiced two observations that Americans try very hard to pretend don't exist.