National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster on Sunday said that there “has to be a significant change in the nature of” Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
“It has to be a significant change in the nature of the Assad regime and its behavior in particular,” McMaster said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We’re not saying that we are the ones who are going to effect that change.”
He said countries that support Assad’s regime “have to ask themselves some hard questions.”
“Russia should ask themselves, ‘What are we doing here?’ Why are we supporting this murderous regime that is committing mass murder of its own population and using the most heinous weapons available?’” McMaster said.
President Donald Trump on Thursday approved a military strike against a Syrian air field in the wake of an apparent chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed dozens of civilians.