“The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons. Friday evening’s actions were a response to a chemical weapons attack on the town of Douma, in eastern Ghouta, last Saturday. Damascus, Moscow and Tehran still deny that the chemical attack was Assad’s doing. “I’m not going to say that they’re going to be unable to continue to conduct a chemical attack in the future. Republican Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) later called the airstrikes “unconstitutional, illegal and reckless.” Trump had set a path toward retaliation immediately after last Saturday’s reports of a chemical attack.

Source: Huffington Post April 14, 2018 01:05 UTC