After Syria Gas Attack, World Awaits What Kind of Leader Trump Will Be
The situation in Syria also raises questions about Trump's support for autocracies and authoritarian regimes — and whether he can lead the world with moral clarity and authority.
President Trump issued a remarkable statement following a Syrian gas attack U.S. officials say was leveled by that country's leader against his own people.
Some 40 words of the short, 78-word statement blamed former President Barack Obama for inaction.
"These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution," the statement read, in part. "President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a 'red line' against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing."
Obama's declining to act when Syrian President Assad crossed the "red line" was arguably the low point of Obama's
