Washington • President Donald Trump said Thursday a decision on U.S. action in Syria would come “very soon or not so soon,” signaling a slowing of what had seemed a quick drive for airstrikes in retaliation for the suspected use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis also raised caution flags Thursday, musing aloud about the risks of an escalating war, even as he told Congress that the Pentagon would present options for a Syria response at a National Security Council meeting Thursday.
“Never said when an attack on Syria would take place.