Secretary of State John Kerry discussed President Obama’s plan for a military strike on Syria, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday afternoon.
Kerry presented what he called a targeted strike intended to “degrade and deter” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ability to use chemical weapons. He stressed that this resolution will not land the U.S. in an extended war, promising no “boots on the ground.”
“President Obama is not asking America to go to war,” Kerry said
Sitting beside Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kerry said it’s “definitively in our national security interest” to respond to hard proof that Assad’s regime carried out a large-scale chemical weapons strike against his own people. The White House on Friday declassified a four-page report on Syria’s use of chemical weapons. Read more…
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