"Trump Was Right to Strike Syria. The crucial question is what comes next." - by Nick Kristof - NYT | Apart from Russia and Iran, the entire world applauded the military operation carried out by the U.S. against the Syrian regime... | Donald Trump’s welcome show of US global leadership - by Nicholas Burns | Syrians hail Donald Trump as their new champion: Abu Ivanka al-Amriki | M.N.: "Divide and conquer" - always works. | “I now have responsibility, and I will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly, I will tell you that,” the president said of Syria on Wednesday. “It is now my responsibility.” | Downsizing Mr. Bannon - NYT Editorial - Trump News and Investigations Updates - 4.7.17
Trump News and Investigations Updates - 4.7.17 "Syria is a spectacular country redolent with history, and inhabited by a normally warm and hospitable people. Yet Obama’s well-meant caution has allowed Syria’s downward spiral to turn it into a symbol of brutality and suffering that has also aggravated the Sunni-Shia schism all over the world. Because there was no good option on any given day, we always chose to do little or nothing. The result was that more than 300,000 people were killed, vast numbers were tortured and raped, almost five million refugees fled Syria and destabilized other countries, ISIS sowed terrorism worldwide, and genocides unfolded against the Yazidi and Christian communities in Syria and Iraq. For all the legitimate concerns about the risks ahead, now again we just might have a window to curb the bloodshed in Syria. I’m glad Trump took the important first step of holding Assad accountable for using chemical weapons. But it’s all going to depend no
