Chemical weapons attacks genuinely moved TrumpPresident Donald Trump doesn't strike us as a sentimentalist, particularly when it comes to hapless citizens in foreign lands. Still, it's is easy to imagine how Trump would see a strike on Syria as sending a powerful signal to Kim Jong Un that the United States was prepared to get tougher with him. But if the strike is designed to set the stage for further US pressure on Syria and indirectly on Russia, Putin will like push back against the US challenge in Syria. Will the United States now strike Assad when he uses conventional barrel bombs against civilians? And we've long argued that such an approach may drag the United States into the muck of the Syrian civil war.

Source: CNN April 07, 2017 15:22 UTC