Have at it: If talks fail, should U.S. strike Syria?

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – It’s hard to watch those images:

Hundreds of Syrians dead and dying in the moments after a reported gas attack the Obama administration insists was the handiwork of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime.

Those bloodshot eyes, watery and fading. Men and women, heaving, vomiting, racked by the apparent toxins coursing through their bodies. Small children convulsing on the tile floors of hospitals overflowing with human misery.

Here’s another image that’s hard to see, an image Americans have watched too many times over the past dozen years:

A young U.S. soldier returning home from a faraway war, in a casket draped with an American flag.