I didn’t vote for Donald Trump, and I didn’t expect great things out of him.  Still, I was hoping for a little bit of change (for the better) on the margin.

I can officially say now that Trump has blood on his hands.  I know that bombs have been dropping on his watch since he became president in January, but I give a little bit of leeway in the fact that it was all a continuation of the previous administration.  The whole government, which includes the war faction, has a life of its own.  This is why the term “deep state” has become more popular.  People are realizing that it doesn’t really matter who the top figurehead is.  Sure, he could have ordered a withdrawal of all troops from overseas immediately, but I was still giving him a little bit of the benefit of the doubt.

After reports alleging that Assad’s government in Syria used chemical weapons to kill innocent people, Trump ordered missile strikes in Syria.  He is falling right in line with his enemies, and he is also going against many things he said in the past.

When Assad was accused of using chemical weapons back in 2013, Trump stated that the U.S. government should not get involved.  And during his recent campaign, Trump said that Assad and the Russians were taking care of ISIS, so we should just step away and let them do the dirty work.

But just as George W. Bush called for a more humble foreign policy in his 2000 campaign, and Barack Obama was supposedly going to be the peace president, Donald Trump has fallen right in line with his predecessors.  He has backed off on his talk about peace and is joining the war hawks.  Now he will join his enemies in trying to overthrow the secular Assad regime.  If any dictator in the Middle East keeps order and allows Christians to live there, then it has become U.S. policy to get rid of that dictator and cause total chaos in the region.  U.S. foreign policy has murdered and ruined the lives of more Christians by causing war, destruction, and total chaos than any foreign dictator could have hoped to do.

While Trump’s enemies demonize Steve Bannon, it was actually Bannon that supposedly arranged for Trump to meet with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.  On foreign policy, Gabbard is brilliant.  She understands both the immorality and the stupidity of trying to overthrow Assad in Syria.  Since Trump met with her, I know he has heard the other side of the story, but he is choosing to ignore it.

These allegations, just as past allegations against Assad, are likely false.  It is more lies put out by the pro war establishment.  These are the same liars who told us about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  These are the same liars who try to get us involved in almost any war.

Assad is being set up again.  There are few, if any, reasons why he would use chemical weapons on innocent people.  There are many reasons he wouldn’t want to do such a thing.  It is likely that it was Assad’s enemies who set this up.  The question is whether the set up is from the Islamic radicals trying to overthrow him, or the U.S. government, or both.

Even though I don’t agree with Trump on many things, I have defended him in the past up to a certain point.

When Trump critics would accuse him of being mean to women or being anti-immigrant, I would point out that it is better than bombing and killing innocent people.  Now when they accuse him of being mean to women or being anti-immigrant, I will respond that it means little as compared to his bombing and killing of innocent people.

Not only is Trump’s attack on Syria immoral and bad policy, it is also politically stupid.  Now Trump is allied with the same people who have constantly tried to crush him.  Does he not think they will try to crush him again when given the chance?

Trump supported the horrible “RyanCare” bill and ended up in a fight with the Freedom Caucus.  He teamed up with Paul Ryan, one of his enemies, to push a bill that many of his supporters did not like.

Now Trump is teaming up with the entire establishment in waging war against Syria.  He is also showing his dictator/ authoritarian tendencies in not even consulting Congress.  He should be impeached (as many of his predecessors should have been) for waging an undeclared war.  He really should be going to jail for killing innocent people too, but I realize that is an even more remote possibility.  Bush and Obama should both be in prison serving many life sentences for the hundreds of thousands (millions?) who died from their wrath.

I’m sure some Trump supporters will stand by Trump on this attack on Syria.  But there are some libertarians, and even some conservatives, who supported Trump in large part because he gave some hope for a more peaceful foreign policy.  So much for “America First”.  I guess it is now “Syria First”.

Trump was also supposed to be the anti-establishment candidate.  On the repeal of Obamacare, and now on Syria, Trump has fallen right in line with the establishment.  He has become part of what he campaigned against.  Trump is now part of the swamp.

Nobody, especially libertarians, should be surprised.  Still, the whole thing is disheartening.  I held out a little bit of hope that Trump might be marginally better on this one issue.  I knew he was bad on economics and other issues, but I was hoping that maybe he would scale down the war machine a bit.  Instead, we are right back to more war and more killing.  The old wars continue to drag on while Trump will get us bogged down into another one.

More innocent people will die, and more terrorists will be created from it all.  When people are bombed, and they have friends and relatives die, and they watch their whole lives turn to chaos, they tend to get mad at the instigators of it all.  And if the U.S. hadn’t gone into Iraq, and hadn’t gotten involved in Syria, then Syria would likely be a relatively peaceful place to live right now.

Trump is either immoral or a total buffoon.  My hope is the latter, but he may just be both.