So, not maybe not inherently ignorable like Rather, but still something you can place second to your expertise from having children. 
Unfortunately, you managed to miss the point from both. Syria is a deeply complicated situation and it’s very hard for anyone to say what the best response is. Sure, it would be foolish to assume something must be bad just because it was done by Trump (although it’s a far better bet than assuming the same just because Obama proposed it, the way Trump and the Republicans had done). But it’s much more foolish not to care about any broader strategy or effects or whether proper thought and procedure went into this action and just celebrate that Trump spanked the bad guys, and even more so to go further and imagine that in some way proves he’s the leader we always hoped he would become.
In case you haven’t noticed, and didn’t get past the words “Dan Rather” in the title here, that’s been the major media response. Heck, the New York Times actually went so far as to call a story “On Syria attack, Trump’s heart came first”. So not only do we not examine the point of the strike but we forget about all his hard work fighting the one thing we know for sure would help Syrians, humanitarian aid and taking refugees, or all the civilians killed in Mosul. We forget the attempts to eliminate health care, environmental policies, indifference or hostility to minority protections, attacks on the press, evidence of foreign election tampering, etc., etc., and general incompetence permeating all of it.
No, bombs were dropped, so now we pull together and call him capable and compassionate. To anyone paying attention, this is response dangerous; a good sign the media has not learned its lessons from cheering on the invasion of Iraq, and even if it wasn’t done to efface Trump’s scandals providing an obvious lesson of how to do so. As was explained nicely in the editorials by Rather and Krugman, but also by many others.
And where are you in all this? Trying to derail the topic to whatever irrelevant comments on Rather’s credentials you found, or to how it’s wrong to let our opinion of the dishonest racist molester in charge prejudice us and missiles are just good parenting, or anything else. It seems whatever avoids the actual point here, about the kind of response and scrutiny this action has received and the problems with that, which I can’t even tell if you bothered reading or not.
