Marco Rubio on Airstrikes: It Was the Right Move’ and ‘It Was Legal’

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RUBIO: “It was the right move. First of all, it was legal. It was in furtherance of both enforcing an agreement that the United States and Russia were a party to for the removal of chemical weapons. It was a furtherance of the treaty that they signed and it was in furtherance of international law that says that you cannot use chemical weapons against anyone, not to mention innocent civilians. It was in furtherance of U.N. Security Council resolution. It was all to our international interest. There are hundreds of American troops now in the region and in Syria who could be threatened by sarin gas. Assad is willing to use that gas against civilians. Why would he not be willing to use it against Americans? So, it was important. It was proportional and it was targeted. But it was not just symbolic. He specifically targeted and significantly degraded a key military installation which has been used in the past and I believe would have been used in the future for chemical attacks.”