Why did US really attack Syria?
Donald Trump authorized the launching of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the sovereign Syrian state.
US President Donald Trump’s ostensibly dramatic decision to order a missile strike on Syria was not based on his sympathy for victims of last week’s suspected gas attack, given his indifference to widespread human rights violations taking place in the US and other nations.
Trump, who had long opposed military intervention in Syria, ordered the military attack on a Syrian airbase in Homs province on Friday. The attack was launched just a day after he accused, without a shred of evidence, President Bashar al-Assad of being behind last week’s suspected chemical weapons attack, which killed over 80 people in the town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province.
Foreign policy experts say the US bombing of Syria was done in part to deflect attention from the president’s growing list of problems at home, from the investigation of his campaign’s alleged ties with Russia to his failed healthcare legislation and blocked travel ban. During his presidential election campaign, Trump had indicated that he would be less willing than some of his predecessors to conduct military operations against other countries.
In 2013, as a businessman, Trump advised former US President Barack Obama not to strike Syria after a sarin gas attack near Damascus was reported. As a presidential candidate last year, Trump criticized Obama and Hillary Clinton, the former US secretary of state during Obama’s first term and Trump’s opponent in the election, for getting involved in foreign conflicts and waging wars in other countries.
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