by Itunuoluwa Adebo

President Trump warned on Wednesday that he would not tolerate the “heinous” chemical weapons attack in Syria opening the door to a greater American role in protecting the population in a vicious civil war that he has always said the United States should avoid.

Trump declined to offer any details about any potential action. But said his horror at the images of “innocent children, innocent babies” choked by poison gas in a rebel-held area of Syria had caused him to re-evaluate his approach. Few days after the WH declared it would be “silly” to persist in trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Trump said, “My attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much.”

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At a news conference in the Rose Garden , He said “It crossed a lot of lines for me, ”referring to the “red line” that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, had drawn before a 2013 poison-gas attack by Mr. Assad’s forces. Trump claims that former president Obama’s refusal to attack Syria then sowed the conditions for this new assault. The estimated death toll in Syria was reported to have exceeded 100.

Syria was one of several places, along with North Korea and Iran, where Mr. Trump on Wednesday threatened a forceful American response. But in all these cases, he declined to disclose options, arguing that there was a need for surprise but stoking worries that his fledgling administration is not ready to deal with multiple threats across the Middle East and Asia.

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Trump’s ambassador Nikki R. Haley warned that the United States might take unilateral action if the Security Council failed to respond to this latest atrocity in Syria. The president, standing alongside King Abdullah II of Jordan at the news conference, told reporters, “I’m not saying I’m doing anything one way or the other, but I’m certainly not going to be telling you.”

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