SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT THE SYRIAN AIRPORT BOMBING

There is something not right about the Syrian Shayrat airport bombing.  Oh, I don't object to bombing a Syrian airport in wake of a poison gas attack.  Assuming that missiles were fired off (not pictures off the shelf) and armed, it seems like they didn't hit the airport.  (1) There are reports that half the missiles fell short, (2) There are reports of planes taking off from the airport the next day,* (3) Russians had been warned of the attack to minimize human casualties [See added note at the end.] and (4) Where are the surveillance photos?  I saw one photo of explosions, but it was through some trees and it wasn't clear where they hit.  There also was a photo of some military people examining some wreckage.

I believe that President Trump is impulsive enough to do such an attack.  After all, Assad agreed to give up his poison gases outlawed by the Geneva Convention and the Russians promised to monitor this.  So Trump had reason enough to make an attack though previously he has tweeted many times that we should stay out of Syria or at least get approval from congress.  But that was then (when Obama was president), but where are the surveillance photos of the damage?  It is even said that the runways were untouched.

The official noted that up to 20 Syrian aircraft were destroyed in Thursday's airstrikes but added that the missiles did not target every aircraft at the base and that the runway was untouched.* (underlining mine)

A Syrian official told the Associated Press that at least seven people had been killed and nine wounded in the US missile attack. Reuters reported that the Syrian state news agency said the strikes had killed nine civilians, including four children, in areas near the airbase. The death toll has not been independently verified.**
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[Russian] Konashenkov insisted that the effectiveness of the US strike was “very low”, claiming that only 23 of the 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles reached the Shayrat airbase in the province of Homs. He said the strikes had destroyed only six MiG-23 fighter jets of the Syrian airforce, which were under repair, but didn’t damage other Syrian warplanes at the base.**

It took 59 missiles to destroy up to 20 planes?  I suspect the missiles cost more than the planes, but who ever said that war was economical?.

Comment: I understand that to die of poison gas can be very bad, but, in reality, is it any worse than being blown apart by bombs or slowly dying from shrapnel wounds?  Can you really civilize war?  Isn't that an oxymoron?

Note added April 04-09-2017: I've now seen more pictures of the airport.  There is remarkably little damage seen.  You always see pictures of a double hanger with one of the fronts smoke damaged but not physically.  The statement saying only 8 planes were destroyed may be true.  Because the Russians were warned, probably all planes that could be flown out were.

* http://abcnews.go.com/US/syrian-jets-off-air-base-hit-us/story?id=46646770
** https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/07/us-airstrikes-on-syria-donald-trump-what-we-know-so-far