That'll Show 'Em

From the Post:

President Obama is weighing a military strike against Syria that would be of limited scope and duration, designed to serve as punishment for Syria’s use of chemical weapons and as a deterrent, while keeping the United States out of deeper involvement in that country’s civil war, according to senior administration officials.

Well, I'm glad to hear the president doesn't want to get deeply involved in Syria's Civil War. But I have to wonder what this intervention is supposed to accomplish. Blow up a few depots, crater an airfield, kill a few soldiers, to make the point that killing civilians with chemical weapons is worse than shooting them? This seems doomed to disappoint everyone and accomplish nothing, at a time when even the Post's own poll shows that 67% of Americans don't want to get involved.