Hi Monica, and I agree.

If church leadership cannot distinguish between an attack based on "retribution," versus one intended to ultimately drive a despot away from the use of WMDs, then those leaders need to back away from the mic, and get back to their day jobs.

I would point out that their statement does not address exactly how one is to create peace with a guy like this.  I'm guessing that they had to re-do their planned statement that was going to bemoan the administrations failure to negotiate a lasting peace in Syria, and replace it with this one.   Until I hear something from them that might save the lives of the civilians in Syria from the next wave of government attacks, I'll likely ignore them, for they are NOT solving the immediate problems, that really ARE costing lives daily over there.