It was a nice gesture, I suppose, but in terms of preventing another Syrian gov't chem attack, it was largely empty. I'm not sure what else the U.S. could have done, though. Doing nothing sends the wrong message. A riskier strike with runway penetrators or bunker busters would have put American aircrews at risk. Perhaps the TLAM strike was better than nothing.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ii...I0&usp=sharing
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...ase-was-a-sham