US Strike on Syria: Trump ‘Merely Shooting From the Hip’ Like Wild West Sheriff

SputnikNews.com
12.04.2017

Washington’s missile strike on the Shayrat Air Base in Syria has divided US society, making many Americans feel betrayed over the White House’s interventionist stance. Donald Trump is “shooting from the hip” with the blind confidence that he’s right, American peace activist Jan R. Weinberg told Sputnik.

US President Donald Trump risks losing his base, American conservative commentator Daniel McCarthy wrote in his recent op-ed for the National Interest, and with good reason.

Trump’s electorate has long seen him as a non-interventionist; however, the recent US missile strike on the Shayrat Air Base in Syria proved otherwise.

>As American geopolitical analyst Ian Bremmer tweeted: “Of all the reasons Americans voted for Trump, getting into a war with Syria was not on the list.”

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