President Trump’s decision to launch missile strikes at a Syrian airfield in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on civilians marks a major escalation in U.S. involvement in the country’s civil war — and is an action that Americans overwhelmingly opposed four years ago.
But while it will take days to gauge Americans’ reactions to Friday’s strikes, history shows public support for military action can shift dramatically in the wake of it actually happening. CONT.
Scott Clement, Washington Post