I never thought I would say this, but I stand alongside Donald Trump's cruise missile strike on Syria. It was the right response.

Trump did what Obama failed to do. He did what the United Nations has failed to do on so many occasions. Trump acted.

He acted in a way that was responsible, transparent and contained, and without risk to civilian life - God knows the Syrian people have suffered enough.

President Assad could be in no doubt what the attack was for, given the missiles targeted the airport where the chemical attack was launched, and it targeted the Syrian jets that are indiscriminately attacking civilians from the air.

Assad’s arrogance in his continual use of chemical weaponry is beyond abhorrent. He knows the United Nations will criticise him, but he knows the bark is never followed by a bite. Well, Donald Trump bit.

The message was clear. If you use chemical weapons, Washington will wade in.  It was a one-strike strategy. Stop using chemical weapons or you’ll feel the might of the U.S military.

So what comes next? Well, that’s the issue isn’t it? The missile attack did what it was designed to do, but there is no broader strategy.

There is no plan to stop the many groups from fighting across borders in Syria and Iraq, or to begin some sort of peaceful resolution. The Iranians and Lebanon's Hezbollah are fighting on the side of Assad. On the other side, the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra. You’ve got Sunni, Shia, Alawites and Kurds in there, and so it goes on. It’s a mess. That’s what happens when you leave a conflict unchecked for over half a decade. It morphs into the rudderless, murderous beast it is today.

There is so much opposition to this, but the only way to start moving towards a peaceful resolution and to stop the flood of people out of Syria, is to put neutral boots on the ground. I just don't see any other option. You need a multi-national force to retake cities and regions from Islamic State and then hold them. Hold that peace. If you can secure parts of Syria for Syrian civilians, as over-simplistic as that may sound, that would surely signal to all those fighting that at some stage this conflict must end. Has to end. Nothing can be achieved if this drags on. Nothing except more bloodshed.

Peace won’t come for a very, very long time, but we can only hope that because of Trump’s actions, at the very least we won’t see pick-up trucks laden with the corpses of children who’ve been gassed to death in the streets. That’s an image that once seen, will never leave you.  And neither should it.