特朗普下令对叙利亚实施打击

The United States and European allies launched strikes against Syrian targets, President Trump announced on Friday, seeking to punish President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack near Damascus that killed more than 40 people.

美国总统特朗普周五宣布，美国和欧洲盟国对叙利亚目标实施了精确打击，以惩罚叙利亚总统阿萨德在大马士革附近实施的一起疑似化学武器袭击事件，该事件造成了40余人死亡。

Mr. Trump said Britain and France had joined the United States in the strikes, which he said were underway.

英国和法国加入了此次行动。

“These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead,” Mr. Trump, in a televised nighttime address from the White House Diplomatic Room, said of the Syrian attacks last weekend that he blamed on Mr. Assad.

特朗普称，此次打击的目的是阻止叙利亚化学武器的生产、传播和使用，他称之为“美国的重要国家安全利益”。

He said the strikes of precision weapons sought to deter the production, spread and use of chemical weapons, which he called “a vital national security interest of the United States.”

此次袭击事件有可能使美国陷入叙利亚复杂的多边战争，特朗普上周才表示他不想卷入叙利亚争端。袭击事件还增加了美国与俄罗斯和伊朗对抗的可能性，俄罗斯和伊朗均在叙利亚部署了支持阿萨德的军事力量。