I am in favor of President Trump’s decision to conduct a tactical, limited missile strike on the air field reported to be where the aircraft that dropped the chemical weapons came from – Bashar al-Assad is a evil man and Russia and Iran are propping him up and are also our enemies.

But I am worried about our untested, impetuous president, while also thankful for his superb military leadership and our superb military.

Fun as it may be to engage in it, this isn’t the time for swagger and whoopin’ and hollerin’, but prayer, deliberation, and serious-mindedness.

A quote attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman, an actual Union general in the Civil War, sums up his view of war:

I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here.
Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell!

War is hell.