A bunch of State Department officials have signed a declaration claiming that Obama should bomb Assad targets in Syria, because without that the Dictator will never negotiate. There are several flaws in this unwise proposed intervention.
First of all it is clear that military interventions in the middle east have done more harm than good, with the failed states of Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan as the outcome. Next the defeat of Assad would lead to a collapse of the Syrian state also, with a brutal civil war among the so called victors on the ground, which contain some of the the most radical of the Islamic groups and bitter enemies of the West. A takeover by IS would follow in short order. Russia might directly or by proxy down US planes. Things would get a lot worse than anything thus far and that says something.
With people like this at the heart of the US power base in Washington, the choice of President becomes more critical than might appear out on the campaign trail. The experienced Clinton begins to look more attractive the the gung-ho Trump.