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What Trump’s Syria Intervention Reveals About His Foreign PolicyOn the anniversary of the 2017 Tomahawk missile strike in Syria, it remains unclear whether Trump has learned the limits of military action.(Hasan Mohamed/AFP/Getty Images) By Paul D. Shinkman, Senior National Security Writer | April 5, 2018, at 8:49 a.m.What Trump’s Syria Intervention Reveals About His Foreign Policy"No child of God should ever suffer such a horror," President Donald Trump said of the Syrian people on April 6, 2017, hours after ordering the launch of $60 million worth of Tomahawk missiles at an air base the Bashar Assad regime used to stage a sarin gas attack against its own citizens.A year later, and amid Trump's intention to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, the regime still uses chemical weapons to kill its people. The residents of eastern Ghouta as recently as March reported what are believed to be chlorine gas attacks as government forces backed by the Russian military and Iranian proxies continue their annihilation of the former rebel strongholds. Read more at: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-04-05/what-trumps-syria-intervention-reveals-about-his-foreign-policy