This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

On today's show, from Strikes Back, the President punishes Syria for an alleged chemical attack on its own people.

Did the Strikes send a strong enough message to Assad?

What are its consequences? I'll have a great panel to discuss.

Also former Secretary of State Madeline Albright raises the alarm about fascism, saying it is on the rise around the world that she even worries about America.

He is a President that has undemocratic instincts that trouble me a lot.

Also, are we watching the end of human rights?

That is the worry of no lesson authority than the UN's human rights chief.

He is now quitting his job and naming the worst offenders.

In an interview, you will not want to miss.

But first, here's my take.

In April 2017, Donald Trump ordered a missile strike against the Assad regime in Syria for its use of chemical weapons.

I supported the action then because I thought it was worth punishing a regime for using these dreadful weapons.

I was hard to see that President Trump who had campaigned on the narrowest possible conception of America's interests in the world was acknowledging some broader global values.

And finally, I was reassured that Trump was willing to act forcefully against Vladimir Putin, with whom he had until then conducted a strange and star-struck flirtation.

For all these reasons, I support President Trump's use of American military power this week, especially since this time it was done in collaboration with Britain and France.

We're living at a time when many global institutions and values that were built up over decades are eroding or under threat.

To have some action taken to even symbolically enforce the norm against using chemical weapons is worthwhile.

But it does not change the reality about which I spoke at the time that the administration still does not have a serious strategy.

In fact, you can see the incoherence in its approach by the fact that days before deciding on a military intervention in Syria, Trump announced that American troops were going to withdraw from Syria altogether.

Trump's vassalation is simply a heightened version of the dilemma that the United States has faced from the start of the Syrian civil war.

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