We do have breaking news. President Trump ordering military strikes in Syria, the U.S. firing 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase.

These strikes are in retaliation for President Assad's chemical weapons attack on his own people. They killed dozens, including children. The missiles flew.

The explosives exploded. The nation was again at the cusp of war and the media were again at peace.

No doubt what they wanted to do with the strikes is not only sent a signal to Assad, but really to the

world, that there's a new sheriff

in town, that they're going to take a tougher line, that this isn't a president that's going

to be reluctant to use military force. Donald Trump became president of the United States.

That was CNN's Farid Zakaria expressing the overwhelming consensus. Something had to be done

about Assad.

Trump did it.

Moral and political justice had been served, emphatically, even poetically.

We see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two U.S. Navy vessels

in the eastern Mediterranean.

I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen.

I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons.

That was MSNBC's Brian Williams,

in awe of the spectacle that begins in a fireworks show and ends in death.

To me, that's just a little to Apocalypse Now.

I love the smell of my pump in the morning. Apocalypse now, of course, was a savage satire

of brutality, moral obtuseness, and imperialism, whereas the news is supposed to inform and contextualize events,

not romanticize them, but we've been here before.

America strikes back. Afghanistan is pounded with bombs and missiles from the air and sea.

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