We have no idea what’s next for U.S. intervention in Syria because the Trump administration has no clear foreign policy and it changes day by day, according to who last advises President Trump. We presently have around 1000 special forces on the ground in Syria. It’s curious to me that around 86% of Republicans now agree with Trump’s missile strikes, compared to around 22% of them — for taking military action under President Obama in 2012 when many more people in Syria were killed by chemical attack. Around 38% of Democrats were for military action then, and around 37% now agree with Trump’s actions, which had no approval from Congress. Obama, in his “red line speech” declared that “the use of chemical weapons by Bashar Assad would cross a “red line for us” and might trigger a U.S. military response. That red line was set by the international community under the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty, and ratified by Congress in 2003. Obama asked Congress to support a strike punishing Assad’s regime for use of chemical weapons, which Congress never agreed or acted upon, and U.S. public opinion was not for taking military action. Russia and China have repeatedly used their veto power in the United Nations General Assembly to block action against Assad’s regime; and Iran is against any such action. What now?!
Apr 19 2017
What’s next in Syria?
We have no idea what’s next for U.S. intervention in Syria because the Trump administration has no clear foreign policy and it changes day by day, according to who last advises President Trump. We presently have around 1000 special forces on the ground in Syria. It’s curious to me that around 86% of Republicans now agree with Trump’s missile strikes, compared to around 22% of them — for taking military action under President Obama in 2012 when many more people in Syria were killed by chemical attack. Around 38% of Democrats were for military action then, and around 37% now agree with Trump’s actions, which had no approval from Congress. Obama, in his “red line speech” declared that “the use of chemical weapons by Bashar Assad would cross a “red line for us” and might trigger a U.S. military response. That red line was set by the international community under the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty, and ratified by Congress in 2003. Obama asked Congress to support a strike punishing Assad’s regime for use of chemical weapons, which Congress never agreed or acted upon, and U.S. public opinion was not for taking military action. Russia and China have repeatedly used their veto power in the United Nations General Assembly to block action against Assad’s regime; and Iran is against any such action. What now?!
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