A Syrian regime will happen because “all of the parties are going to see that [Bashar al-]Assad is not the leader” the war-torn nation needs – but his ouster isn’t the only U.S. priority, says Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
In an interview to air Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Haley said until Assad is out, “there’s not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen.”
“It just – if you look at his actions, if you look at the situation, it’s going to be hard to see a government that’s peaceful and stable with Assad,” she said in remarks that were released ahead of the broadcast.
“If he needs to do more, he will do more,” Haley said when asked if President Donald Trump would order more strikes. “So, really, now what happens depends on how everyone responds to what happened in Syria, and make sure that we start moving towards a political solution, and we start finding peace in that area.”
Though confident there will be a regime change, Haley said the United States has “multiple priorities.”
“So what we’re trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS,” she said. “Secondly, we don’t see a peaceful Syria with Assad in there. Thirdly, get the Iranian influence out, and then, finally, move towards a political solution, because at the end of the day, this is a complicated situation.”
