Syria Casts Long Shadow Across Rex Tillerson's Big Trip To Italy And Russia
The secretary of state is meeting with G-7 diplomats, then heading to Moscow on Tuesday for some rather tough discussions. All the while, the U.S. strike on Syria is likely to be Item 1 on the agenda.
Prompted by a chemical weapons attack, the U.S. loosed dozens of Tomahawk missiles last week on an air base operated by Syrian President Bashar Assad, the embattled ally of Russia. In the hours and days since the strike, Russian leaders have made no secret of their displeasure with the American intervention.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has dismissed these protests fromRussia, which to destroy Assad's chemical weapons — as, at best, "simply not plausible."
