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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson joined ABC's George Stephanopoulos to discuss the evolving U.S. policy towards Syria on Sunday's edition of 'This Week.' Tillerson reiterated that the Trump administration is not seeking regime change in Syria and its "military posture" towards the Assad regime remains unchanged after Thursday's missile strikes.
"The president was very clear in his message to the American people that [Thursday's] strike was related solely to the most recent horrific use of chemical weapons," Tillerson explained.
"he strike was a message to Bashar al-Assad that your multiple violations of your agreements at the UN, your agreements under the chemical weapons charter back in 2013 that those would not go without a response," he said. "We're calling on Bashar al-Assad to cease the use of these weapons. Other than that, there is no change to our military posture."
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: But but you accept that right now, the Syrian people have no way to remove Assad. That's going to take greater pressure from the United States, from the international coalition, perhaps military pressure.
TILLERSON: Well ultimately it could, George, but we've seen what that looks like when you undertake a violent regime change in Libya and the situation in Libya continues to be very chaotic and I would argue that the life of the Libyan people has -- is not all that well off today, so I think we have to learn the lessons of the past and learn the lessons of what went wrong in Libya when you choose that pathway of regime change. So we know this is going to be hard work, but we think it's also a process that will lead to a durable and lasting stability inside of Syria. Any time you go in and have a violent change at the top, it is very difficult to create the conditions for stability longer term.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So it sounds like from what you're saying right now, there is no real change in the United States' military stance towards Syria from what it was last week.
TILLERSON: That's correct, George. This strike -- I think the president was very clear in his message to the American people that this strike was related solely to the most recent horrific use of chemical weapons against women, children, and as the president said, even small babies, so the strike was a message to Bashar al-Assad that your multiple violations of your agreements at the UN, your agreements under the chemical weapons charter back in 2013 that those would not go without a response in the future and we are asking Russia to fulfill its commitment and we're asking and calling on Bashar al-Assad to cease the use of these weapons. Other than that, there is no change to our military posture.
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In a stunning display of disregard for Constitutional protections relating to inmates, federal corre...
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From the Duke lacrosse team, the Columbia mattress girl and the University of Virginia, the left has not been able to produce one actual rape on a college campus.
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Trump is doing all he can to boost the economy, but the elite are trying to stop him.
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The High Court will determine whether agency fees are unconstitutional.
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia visits Uncommon Knowledge for a wide ranging interview including the living constitution, Roe v. Wade, Congress' relatio...
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If any liberal celebrity or politician tweeted or accomplished the same things, they’d be praised for it. But not Ivanka Trump.
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After PolitiFact rated as "mostly false" a joke made by Republican Senator Ted Cruz, using all the known and provable qualities associated with PolitiFact, Breitbart News engaged in an exhaustive, science and fact-based investigation in order to find a way to perfectly describe the people who run the fact-checking site.
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Trump Surges in Polls During First Foreign Trip
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Well, if President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are to be believed, then the preliminary framework accord that the P5+1 struck with Iran was truly historic, and will usher in a new era of peace. Someone may have forgotten to tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that. According to RIA Novosti (and translated …
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Kerry: Congress Can Vote As Long As it Doesn't Interfere with Obama's Deal
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From the top tier to the hopeless, my odds for the current candidates.
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Kathleen Valencia is the second teacher this week to be suspended following a Project Veritas video.
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Shapiro is someone that both Trump’s right-leaning opponents and right-minded friends respect.
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We finally have an Obama doctrine. It is the 223 words of the White House statement on the death of Fidel Castro. It is blank of moral judgment, empty of indignation, blind to injustice, dismissive...
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In its infinite leftist wisdom, a magazine called Affinity published a piece by an Asian teenager who describes herself as “passionate about social justice and politics, a hardcore feminist, #BLM supporter and LGBTQ+ rights advocate,” arguing that white men should be deni
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In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says he's "confident" the United...
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In August outspoken Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal called for the assassination of President Trump. Challelle-Nadal posted the comment on Facebook. Chappelle-Nadal then deleted it in a panic. Maria Chappelle-Nadal was removed from her committee assignments the next week. But she was not removed from public office. Today Chappelle-Nadal compared Trump to Hitler. Because…. Republicans …
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Mother of Benghazi Victim: Hillary's 'Lying,' Hearings Aren't 'Partisan,' My Son 'Didn't Expect To Live Till Morning'
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Court documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that as FBI director, Mueller was “likely involved” in releasing deceptive agency statements to cover up a connection between a Saudi Arabian family living in Florida and the 9/11 hijackers. The statements were tailored to discredit a 2011 story exposing an FBI investigation into the family, who lived in Sarasota, ?
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In the days before his apparent suicide, Schweich said he was upset over what he thought was an anti-Semitic whisper campaign
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#TheRefinery crew talk about the latest new regulations out of the perpetual Nanny State of New York City- limiting kids at daycare to only 4 ounces of 100% ...
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““No information was ever given by the Trump Team to Russia, yet the Hillary Clinton campaign paid for information from Kremlin sources and just washed it through an intermediary, Christopher Steele.” Jesse Waters”
