Obama's Syria Speech

On Tuesday night President Obama addressed a nation divided on whether or not The United States of America should intervene in Syria. In the speech, Obama made his case for intervening

The one point that really hit home to me was when he discussed the repercussions of not intervening in Syria. Obama made that statement that "if we do not intervene then the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons." This continuing usage of chemical weaponry would create a sort of domino effect among other dictators, who would think it acceptable to use chemical weapons as well. As a result of this domino effect our troops will again be in danger of facing chemical weapons just like they were during WWII.

After reading multiple reactions to Obama's Syria speech, most of the reactions were positive, however, there were a few negative outcomes. I watched a video on CNN where Dem. senator Tom Udall says that he still is not quite sure what exactly the President wants to do by intervening in Syria, even after the speech. This stood out to me primarily because, after watching the speech I felt the same way. So, while the fact that Obama gave the speech is being well received, it didn't seem to answer the major questions about what his goals are.

News Source:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/politics/2013/09/11/exp-lead-intv-senator-tom-udall-syria.cnn.html