叙利亚若发生化武袭击 美国将考虑军事选项

America's top general said he was involved in "routine dialogue" with President Donald Trump about military options should Syria ignore US warnings against using chemical weapons in an expected assault on the enclave of Idlib. 美国一位高级将领近日表示，他正与唐纳德·特朗普总统就军事选项进行“例行对话”，以防叙利亚无视美国先前的警告，对伊德利卜省飞地“使用化学武器”。 Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said no decision had been made by the United States to employ military force in response to a future chemical attack in Syria. 参谋长联席会议主席、海军陆战队上将约瑟夫·邓福德表示，美国尚未做出动用军事力量应对叙利亚未来化学武器袭击的决定。 "But we are in a dialogue, a routine dialogue, with the president to make sure he knows where we are with regard to planning in the event that chemical weapons are used," he told reporters during a trip to India. 他在一次印度之行中向记者透露：“但我们正在与总统进行对话，这是一次例行对话，目的是确保他知道我们在发生使用化学武器的情况下的计划。”

Dunford later added: "He expects us to have military options and we have provided updates to him on the development of those military options." 邓福德随后补充道：“他希望我们有军事选择，我们已经向他提供了关于这些军事选择的发展的最新情况。” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has massed his army and allied forces on the front lines in the northwest, and Russian planes have joined his bombardment of rebels there, in a prelude to a widely expected assault. 叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿尔-阿萨德已经将他的军队和盟军集结在西北部的前线，俄罗斯军机也加入对当地恐怖分子的轰炸行动，这是人们普遍预期的攻击的前奏。 A top US envoy said there was "lots of evidence" that chemical weapons were being prepared by Syrian government forces in Idlib. 一位美国高级特使表示，有“大量证据”表明，叙利亚政府军正在伊德利卜准备化学武器。 The White House has warned that the United States and its allies would respond "swiftly and vigorously" if government forces used chemical weapons in Idlib. 白宫此前警告，叙利亚政府军若对伊德利卜使用化学武器，美国和盟军将会“迅速且强烈”回应。 President Donald Trump has twice bombed Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons, in April 2017 and April 2018. 叙利亚政府军曾遭控使用化学武器，因此特朗普在2017年4月和2018年4月两度轰炸了叙利亚。