Upon a direct order from President Donald Trump, the US Navy's USS Porter and USS Ross guided-missile destroyers fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the Mediterranean at Syria's Shayrat airfield early on Friday, destroying as many as 20 aircraft. 

The attack was in retaliation for a chemical attack on Tuesday that Washington insists was carried out by fighter jets operating from the base.

"Make no mistake, bombing Assad means the United States is fighting on the same side as ISIS (Daesh)," Paul wrote in a Fox News article on Friday, describing Trump's policy as "dangerous and morally wrong."

"Military action is not in our national security interest and should not be authorized.  Our prior interventions in this region have done nothing to make us safer, and Syria will be no different," the lawmaker wrote.