On Thursday night, two US Navy warships fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase after President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime used chemical weapons earlier this week against civilians. For months, Donald Trump has espoused a hands-off approach to intervening in the Middle Eastern country\u2019s six-year-long civil war, yet it took just 24 hours for the president to reverse course and launch America\u2019s first military action against the Syrian government.