Trump’s national security adviser, lieutenant general HR McMaster, said Russia, as Assad’s most powerful ally, could now change the course of world events. Tillerson said he did not expect a military response from Russia over the “very proportional” US strike. Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump criticized US intervention in Iraq and Libya, although he personally supported action in 2002 and 2011. “And I’m not going to attempt to try and explain that.”Haley said she could speak for the president this week. “What you saw was a president that was disgusted by what the Assad regime did to those innocent people,” she said.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2017 16:18 UTC