The Delusions and Illusions of Intervention

On April 4th, 2017 the Syrian Arab Air Force on commands by President Bashar Al-Assad dropped bombs on the rebel held town of Khan Sheikhound . In the following days 80 people would be dead and a international incident would arise. The United Nations and the coalition forces in the Middle East believe that Assad used chemical weapons a violation of international law against militants and civilians in rebel held territory as a part of a offensive against the rebels in western Syria. The Syrian government and Russian allies state that while the strike happened the bombs were conventional and hit a rebel chemical weapons depot. In response to these attacks president Donald Trump authorized the bombing of the airbase that the original strikes launched from.
The fact is does it matter if the attack was chemical? When a bomb is dropped on someone they die. a chemical weapon or a barrel bomb still kills you. The United States has used chemical weapons in wars for decades and you will never hear any criticism for it. During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped thousands of tons of agent orange on Vietnam destroyed half the country giving both American soldiers and Vietnam civilians cancer. During the invasion of Iraq the United States used depleted uranium and white phosphorus during the battle of Fallujah. Many people ignore the facts of history during the discussion of Syria and the possible intervention.
Shadi Hamid is a writer for the Atlantic who wrote an article "A Practical Guide for Avoiding Fallacies on Syria" which used the excuse of defining debate on intervention to push for intervention. First off Hamid works for the Brookings institute a think tank that has received millions of dollars from foreign governments including governments sympathetic to the jihadist opposition such as Qatar.
First Hamid states that military action does not equal regime change and that is delusional if the United States attacks assad with ground troops then Assad is going to declare war simple as that.  He then makes the delusional claim that not everything is Iraq. While that might be true in the fact that every intervention is not the same, Syria is essentially Iraq. The only reason Syria happened was because of Iraq. ISIS spawned in from the Sunni uprising against the American occupation. The Arab Spring was supported by US diplomats and the United States supported Jihadist opposition that killed women and children for supposed crimes against Islam. He also states that we are not doing anything which could not be further from the truth. The United States has been supporting the SDF (Kurds and communists) since 2013 with weapons, tanks, and vehicles. The United States has been dropping bombs all over Syria since 2011. Also the final notion that the United States should do what strikes fear into Russia is something that has hurt America for centuries and cost thousands of lives through such wars as Korea and Vietnam. The United States should simply support the SDF with military arms, airstrikes and in the long term support the federalization of Syria.