In return, Assad has won from Trump what he was given by Obama, in only slightly modified form. “We’re not going into Syria,” Trump told the New York Post in the hours before Tillerson jetted off to sound statesmanlike in Moscow. “The purpose of this attack was singularly against chemical weapons use,” Mattis told reporters. But chlorine was not specifically mentioned in the Obama deal with Assad and Russian president Vladimir Putin. As for what happened last week in Khan Sheikhoun, “this time it was not chlorine, quite clearly, and we know that for certain.

Source: National Post April 12, 2017 17:15 UTC