- Title: New Yorkers react to U.S. strike on an airbase in Syria
- Date: 7th April 2017
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (APRIL 7, 2017) (REUTERS) WIDE OF NEWS TICKER CLOSE UP OF NEWS TICKER READING (English): "BREAKING NEWS: UNITED STATES ATTACKS SYRIAN AIR BASE WITH CRUISE MISSILES; SYRIA CALLING IT AN 'AGGRESSION' THAT LEAD TO 'LOSSES'" (SOUNDBITE) (English) PAULA ROMANO, PASSERBY, SAYING: "Well I think that his hands were tied. I think that he had to do something. It was horrible what they did to their own people. It's really devastating, all those children, all those people, innocent people, and the way that they died, how tragic, how they suffered. It was heartbreaking, seriously. So although I'm not a Trump fan in general I think that he did the right thing." (SOUNDBITE) (English) JEFF EGAN, PASSERBY, SAYING: "Not really, still a little scary. But a red line is a red line. And hopefully other despots won't be as prone to take advantage of the U.S. any longer." (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANDREW, PASSERBY, SAYING: "I definitely don't agree with most of his politics and I don't think his hands were tied, but I think he may have made the right call. Enough is enough. When innocents are being slaughtered in such a brutal fashion, America cannot stand idly by." VARIOUS OF NEWSPAPER HEADLINES WIDE OF NEWSSTAND SIDE VIEW OF NEWSPAPERS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING IN TIMES SQUARE
- Embargoed: 21st April 2017 14:22
- Keywords: United States Syria missile strikes reaction Trump Donald Trump New York New York City
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: Syria
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA0016BEI91J
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:New Yorkers said on Friday (April 7) that they supported the U.S. air strike on a Syrian airbase, saying U.S. President Donald Trump "did the right thing."
In a sharp escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria, two U.S. warships fired dozens of cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean Sea at the airbase controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's forces in response to the poison gas attack in a rebel-held area on Tuesday (April 4).
"I think that his hands were tied. I think that he had to do something," said passer-by Paula Romano in New York. "It was horrible what they did to their own people. It's really devastating, all those children, all those people, innocent people, and the way that they died, how tragic, how they suffered. It was heartbreaking, seriously. So although I'm not a Trump fan in general I think that he did the right thing."
Trump ordered the strikes just a day after he pointed the finger at Assad for this week's chemical attack, which killed at least 70 people, many of them children, in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun. The Syrian government has denied it was behind the attack. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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