The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says “the United States is determined to see that the monster who dropped chemical weapons on the Syrian people held to account.”

Nikki Haley told an emergency Monday meeting of the Security Council on a suspected poison gas attack in a rebel-held town near the Syrian capital that President Donald Trump is weighing “important decisions.”

She says: “We are on the edge of a dangerous precipice.”

Haley didn’t identify the “monster” but her sharp words appeared aimed at Syrian President Bashar Assad.

She says the Security Council must either discharge its duty “or demonstrate its utter and complete failure to protect the people of Syria. Either way, the United States will respond.”

Haley also accuses Russia and Iran of “enabling the Assad regime’s murderous destruction.”

(AP)