As bombastic, politically savvy, world-wise, and strategically oriented a leader as Donald Trump is, it was stunning to learn that his airstrikes to avenge Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's barbaric sarin gas attack on his own people was primarily motivated by...empathy for murdered children.  His outrage, his change of heart, and his very animating motive was in his reaction to the horrible photos of the child victims that shocked the conscience.  As he stated: Yesterday's chemical attack, a chemical attack so horrific in Syria against innocent people including women, small children, and even beautiful little babies, their deaths was an affront to humanity. These heinous actions by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated. My attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much. It was so alien to what we know of geopolitics, yet so close to what we know from our own Judeo-Christian tradition, that it was impossible not to go along with...(Read Full Post)