Column: Does the US strike resemble a change in its policy on Syria?

Syria: Does the US strike resemble a change in its policy?
Will the US have now direct military intervention in Syria, or the strike was just a show of power?

Strong act, but no change in the US policy

 

The U.S. cruise missile attack was a “one-off,” a U.S. defense official told Reuters, meaning it was expected to be a single strike with no current plans for escalation.

Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has insisted that the missile strikes – despite the sharp shift they represent from the previous stance taken by the Trump administration – are not, in fact, a change in US policy towards Syria: