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    Trump's Selective Empathy for Syrian War Victims

    He has intervened to try to stop chemical attacks. But those fleeing the war zone are mostly not welcomed in the U.S.
    by Krishnadev Calamur Apr 18, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Muhammad Hamed / Reuters

    Video footage of the impact of chemical-weapons attacks on Syrian civilians has twice moved President Trump into militarily striking regime targets. After the U.S. and its allies struck most recently, Trump tweeted Saturday:

    The Trump administration has said its policy in Syria is limited to fighting ISIS, and strikes such as those carried out last week, and in April 2017, in Mattis’s words “contrary impulses.” As Kori Schake : “The one twist from standard realism is the president’s susceptibility to images of suffering. He

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