More than one hundred missiles were launched in Syrian capital city Damascus and surrounding areas on Saturday by Western forces in response to the alleged chemical weapons used in the eastern Ghouta town of Douma last week that killed more than sixty people and injured many, making it the biggest intervention against the government.
Addressing to the nation and blaming the Assad government, United States President Donald Trump said the strikes were required to establish a strong deterrent against production, spread and use of such chemical agents as weapons.
The televised address of Trump added, “The evil and the despicable attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children, thrashing in pain and gasping for air.”
In April 2017 too US resiprocated to similar chemical attack in Syria and destroyed 20 percent of the Syrian Air Force.
Trump questioned Russia and Iran for supporting and financing Assad regime. He said, “What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women, and children?”
Meanwhile, the US Defense Minister Jim Mattis said they are not looking to fight with Syria over a long period, but the one-time shot is a strong message to the Assad regime.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said, “The Syrian regime has a history of using chemical weapons against its own people in the most cruel and abhorrent way.”
Supporting the Western attack she added it is not about regime change or intervening in a civil war, but to prevent civilian casualities and a message to them who believes can use chemical weapons with impunity.
France said the intervention is targeted and proportionate, and was ordered as the red line was crossed.
