It's for the Children, Really?

Please excuse my ignorance, but I fail to see how lobbing missiles into Syria for a few hours or a few days is going to accomplish anything for the children and other innocents who are caught in the crossfire of civil war. 

The Pentagon’s most likely means of attacking Syria will not degrade or deter the regime’s use of chemical weapons, and could drag the U.S. more deeply into Syria’s civil war, retired military officers and analysts say.

Five Navy destroyers armed with about 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles are deployed in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in anticipation of a limited attack on Syrian military sites. Obama administration officials have said the attack’s goal would be to punish the Syrian regime for the Aug. 21 chemical attack on civilians, not to topple President Bashar Assad. 

Most cruise missiles have no “bunker busting” capabilities and are less effective against mobile targets, military analysts note. And Pentagon officials have said that chemical weapons stockpiles would not be targeted to avoid the inadvertent release of poisonous gas.

What the missile strikes will do is dramatically raise the risk of retaliation and escalation, all for nothing. Why do you think virtually every other country in the world wants nothing to do with the ballistic exercise? This is insane.