Why do people keep taking whatever comes out of Chancellor Trump's camp at face value?  The bombing action is just another smoke screen.  Have you ever seen anything more self serving than Tillerson's "warning to America's adversaries" that Trump is dangerous.  (We agree on that but for different reasons.)  
This is all a smoke screen to try to hide their close ties with Russia.  First they tried to blame President Obama for wiretapping to counter their own Russian-aided electronic shenanigans in the election.  That failed abysmally.  Now they are trying to portray themselves as unfriendly with Russia, Tillerson making the claim as to " the poor state of U.S.-Russian relations".  You've got to ask yourself how one bombs a Syrian airport and misses all the Russian planes?  Maybe Russia got the word to get their planes out?
This is all  a choreographed smokescreen.  And the Times and Washington papers fell in line.  Sad.