The United States is warning there could be another military strike on Syria less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump authorized the launch of nearly 60 tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield.
It is the same site where intelligence officials said Syrian government fighters initiated a chemical attack earlier in the week that killed at least 100 civilians.
“It was wrong action hitting Syria without going back to the American people and Congress," said Eddie Jabbour, owner of the 9th Square Market in New Haven.
It has been 27 years since Jabbour moved to the United States, but his mother, sister and brothers still live in Syria, near the Mediterranean coast.
“They definitely far away from all the problems,” he said. “I definitely worry, it's my country, I mean-- I love Syria as much as I love here."
Jabbour said the U.S. military response is a rushed retaliation against Bash al-Assad’s government.
“We can't point the finger unless we are 100 percent sure he did it,” Jabbour said of Assad. “If he did it, I'm 100 percent against him."
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Trump said Thursday night it is vital to the national security of the United States to stop the spread of chemical weapons.
“No child of God should ever suffer such horror," Trump said.
Late Friday afternoon outside New Haven’s City Hall, a group of demonstrators affiliated with the U.S. Peace Council rallied against what it calls the “unilateral bombing” of Syria.
"The slightest misstep can lead to a catastrophe unlike anything we've ever had,” U.S. Peace Council President Alfred Marder said. “This is the time for diplomacy."
Despite the ongoing civil war in his homeland, Jabbour is planning to take a trip there soon.
“I'm going in June back in Syria to see my mother-- she is 85 years old,” he said
Jabbour said he would like to see an international coalition surgically take out Islamic extremist terrorists in Syria. Ultimately, he said, it is up to the Syrian people, not the U.S. or Russia, to decide who will govern their country.
