United States warns Syria of ‘more’ strikes if Assad uses chemical attacks again

Rand Paul’s statement on the United States missile strikes.

The FSO said the U.S.’s responsibility remains great and does not end with the military operation.

“A lot of this is an emotional response, but nothing about this strike suggests that the fundamentals of the Syria conflict have shifted”, said Noah Bonsey, a Syria analyst with the International Crisis Group.

The use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria has sparked a diplomatic incident, as Trump’s airstrikes has him squaring up to the Putin-supported Assad regime.

Nearly five million people have fled Syria since the conflict began over six years ago.

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Friday the Trump administration was ready to take further steps if needed. “So this makes us more afraid”. “We are hopeful that China will find ways to exercise influence over North Korea’s actions to dismantle their nuclear weapons and their missile technology programs”, he told reporters. He never ordered an attack against the Syrian government, but Obama did launch the bombing campaign against the Islamic State as it rapidly expanded in 2014.

The Syrian army said the USA attack killed six people and called it “blatant aggression” that made the United States a partner of “terrorist groups” including Islamic State. USA officials said the air base targeted was most likely the one used to launch the chemical attack.

The Obama administration missed the opportunity to mount such a strike in 2013, he said.

The news agency reported that during the Friday phone call, the Saudi monarch congratulated Trump for his “courageous decision”.

“There was some fairly important information in that briefing, but it was limited to the logistics of the attack itself”, said Sen.

The president may view the attack as a success if the use of chemical weapons stops. A week later, cruise missiles were airborne, heading for a Syrian airfield.

But Trump’s action, and statements at the United Nations Friday by Ambassador Nikki Haley committing the United States to a position of global moral leadership against the Assad regime, force into sharp relief the confusions and contradictions in an American policy on Syria that has reinvented itself with unusual suddenness. Decrying the “abhorrent” chemical weapons attack, the United Nations chief stressed the need for accountability for such crimes in line with existing global norms and Security Council resolutions.

“Donald Trump has done the right thing on Syria. Finally! After years of useless hand-wringing in the face of ugly atrocities”, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who was Hillary Clinton’s director of policy planning at the State Department, wrote on Twitter. She also warned against the US getting involved in “another open-ended war in the Middle East”. And Trump faced pointed questions Friday about whether his strike was legal in the first place. John Cornyn told the Huffington Post.

Yet Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said Washington won’t tolerate Assad slaughtering civilians with chemical weapons, and said further strikes are possible. Under what law or authority did you launch your missiles at this independent country? The young men of Europe had been slaughtering each other since 1914, but on the other side of the Atlantic it was “America First” until Congress backed Woodrow Wilson and declared war on April 6, 1917.

“It’s a good start”, observed national security analyst Michael Ledeen. Pat Toomey said, adding that the move should indicate that a chemical attack on Syrian civilians “will not go unpunished”. Is Trump now aiming to remove Assad?

Donald Trump has said the USA was “representing the world” when it conducted air strikes on a Syrian military base. Trump spent Friday in Florida, in private meetings with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump’s decision to strike Syria won widespread praise from other nations, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which support the Syrian opposition. Trump also had called for Obama to get congressional approval before any attack on Syria.

Does he now seek the ouster of Assad?

The result? “This changes the world probably”, said Ledeen.