Cruise missiles are accurate but are they effective?

The weapon the U.S. has chosen to use against Syria is the Tomahawk missile. “Though powerful, the missile alone would likely not be capable of crippling Bashar Assads rigme”(brook1). Each missile costs $1.1 million. The US’s involvement with Syria is because Assad contains chemical weapons, but the U.N.(United Nations) were not informed of the reasons of needing the weapons.

My mom’s opinion is that “The U.S. should not waste are time with Syria when we have our own problems”. She does have a point because the U.S. are sending five missiles which will cost the U.S. 5.5 million dollars to make, even though we have our own problems.

However, Assad creating the chemical weapons without the U.N’s consent was not the way to go about this. So we must send the tomahawk missiles into Syria and deal with our problems later.

USA today’s Tom Vanden Brook is leaning toward the side against sending missiles into Syria because he states “If Assad is eating cheerios, were going to take away his spoon and give him a fork. Will that degrade his ability to eat cheerios? Yes, will it deter him? Maybe. But he’ll still be able to eat cheerios”.