U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on Syria seems rushed and influenced by emotional swings, according to the former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta. In an interview with CNBC Friday, Letta said Trump reacted without correct preparation, allies or relationship with international organizations. "It seems to be a little bit rushed and we have to know what will be the consequences and what will be the next steps. Is it tit for tat? Is it a one off? Maybe it is too early to say," Letta said.

Letta further added that the move seems to be a very unilateral initiative and is another example of this new "zigzag foreign policy" that Trump is starting to apply. "In the first two months of his Presidency we were there seeing and watching changes in each week with a different angle and a different point of view. So in the last few days, my feeling is that the decision was influenced, the emotional swings were very important to influence the decisions, pictures and so on."

Italy's former prime minister, Enrico Letta Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images

The United States launched a missile attack on a Syrian-government controlled airfield near the city of Homs. Two US warships in the Eastern Mediterranean fired 59 tomahawk missiles at the target. Speaking in Mar-a- lago , President Trump said the strike was made in response to the Assad government's use of chemical weapons earlier in the week. The Syrian Army has said that 6 people have been killed. The Kremlin says the strikes deal a significant blow to Russian-U.S. relations, calling them an aggression against a sovereign state which violates international law. It added that the move will do significant damage to U.S. Russia ties and will deal a serious obstacle to an attempt to create an international coalition to fight terrorism. A Pentagon spokesman said the attack represented a "proportional response", and was intended to stop the regime from using chemical weapons in the future. The Pentagon confirmed the US military gave Russia advance notice of the strike and did not target specific sections of the airfield where Russian forces were believed to be present Speaking to reporters after the strike, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Russia has failed to uphold its responsibility to locate and secure Syria's chemical weapons, as agreed upon in a 2013 resolution.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson makes a statement about the visit of China's President Xi Jinping and about the situation in Syria, at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 6, 2017. Joe Skipper | Reuters