Earlier this morning, US President Donald Trump ordered a missile strike on the Syrian regime’s Shayrat airbase in Syria’s Homs governorate. According to a press release issued by Trump, the military action came in response to Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad’s chemical attack on the people of Khan Sheikhoun in the northern opposition-held Idlib governorate, which has killed nearly 100 civilians. Speaking to reporters, Trump said: “It is in the vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread of chemical weapons.” Trump’s motives were immediately – and rightly – put to question by Twitter users, and so was his strategy. Trump is so moved by images of dying children that he will bomb their country … Continue reading Trump’s Syria strikes: Yea or nay? Twitter is in two minds