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Title: Trump Weighs More Robust Military Strike Against Syria
Post by: rangerrebew on April 11, 2018, 11:16:39 am

Trump Weighs More Robust Military Strike Against Syria

By PETER BAKER, HELENE COOPER and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFFAPRIL 10, 2018
 

WASHINGTON — President Trump and his advisers on Tuesday weighed a more robust retaliatory strike against Syria than last year’s missile attack, reasoning that only an escalation of force would look credible and possibly serve as a deterrent against further use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians.

A pair of Navy warships in the eastern Mediterranean Sea were capable of launching the same sort of missile barrage that Mr. Trump ordered against a Syrian air base a year ago in response to a chemical attack then that killed more than 80 civilians.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/politics/trump-military-strike-syria.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/politics/trump-military-strike-syria.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news)