The US cruise missile attack on Syria last week may have boosted President Trump’s weak standing at home and deflected pressure on him over questionable links between his campaign team and Russia. But it fails on more serious criteria of legality and morality.
In justifying his decision last week to launch a strike against a Syrian government air base, US President Trump made much of his concern that Syria had crossed many of his red lines. And it is true that if, as most of us suspect, the Syrian government did attack Khan Sheikhoun with banned chemical weapons, President Assad has …read more