Last week, it was reported that removing Assad from power was not a priority for the Trump administration. Now, after a massive attack that killed more than 70 people in the region, Trump’s opinion on the Assad regime has “changed very much.”
President Donald Trump has said Tuesday’s chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians “crossed many lines” and changed his opinion of the Assad regime.
Speaking at the White House during the visit of King Abdullah of Jordan, Mr Trump described the attack as “horrible, unspeakable” and a “terrible affront to humanity”.
Asked if the regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons against its own people crossed a “red line” for the new US administration, Mr Trump said: “It crossed a lot of lines for me. When you kill innocent children … that crosses many, many lines.”
Mr Trump has in recent days described any effort to remove President Bashar al-Assad in Syria as secondary to defeating the Isis militant group, and White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the US approach was being driven by a new “reality”.
But on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Trump said: “That attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me … my attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much.”
Earlier, the US envoy to the UN has said America could be “compelled to take its own action” in Syria if the world body fails to act in the wake of the Idlib attack.
“When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action,” US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley told a Security Council meeting on Syria.
Donald Trump has been very critical of Obama and Clinton’s lack of strategy in Syria. With these developments, the Trump administration is clearly looking to avoid the same mistakes make by their predecessors. But for now, no clear strategy has been announced for the region.
Source: Independent
I don’t disagree with you but most of the US is not Muslim.
i want to hear more what you are thinking Jacques? please?
usa killed those kids its what we do.
Signs point more to the sarin attack being by Al Nusra than the Syrian government. This is f**e news.
Trump won by appealing to the voters hopes of getting away from a self destructive foreign intervention policy that has broke the bank, not to mention, our standing with other nations. Now that we have seen his reaction to this event, it’s clear that he used b******t to baffle instead of brilliance.