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Obama gaining bi-partisan support on military strike against Syria
The administration argues that the alleged sarin gas attack last month violated not only the international standard against using such weapons but also Obama’s “red line,” set more than a year ago, that such WMD use would not be tolerated.
The Syrian conflict has claimed more than 100,000 lives in the past 2 1/2 years. The fight has evolved from a government crackdown on a largely peaceful protest movement into a full-scale civil war scarily reminiscent of the one that ravaged Iraq over the last decade. Ethnic massacres have been committed by both sides, which each employ terrorist organizations as allies.
Pressuring the administration in the opposite direction are hawks and proponents of humanitarian intervention among both Democrats and Republicans who feel what Obama is proposing is far too little.
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