One of Obama’s key messages in his address
regarding Syria was that the images of the recent chemical warfare have
troubled him personally and have disturbed the world’s “sense of common
humanity.”
After members of Congress were back in D.C. on Wednesday, The New
York Times reports that there was a significant relief that Obama didn’t call
for immediate military action. Some
couldn’t help but notice that President Obama failed to mention a time frame as
far as how long he would wait to see if the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, released
control of the chemical weapons believed to have already been used on his own
people.
Political
analyst Rami Khouri wrote in the Daily
Star that Russia, the United States, Iran, and Saudi Arabia all need to
meet up and work collectively and resolve this issue together for things to go
over well in Syria.
Outside Sources: (The New York Times, voanews.com)
In President Obama’s address on the subject of Syria this past Tuesday, he made it abundantly clear that the United States, along with 189 other world governments, does not tolerate the use of chemical warfare. He is well aware of our past military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and in no way wants this to turn into a full-blown war. His mission by going into Syria is to notify the Assad-regime of just how wrong chemical warfare is. One statement by the president that really struck a chord with me was when he said
ReplyDelete“That's my judgment as Commander-in-Chief. But I’m also the President of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy. So even though I possess the authority to order military strikes, I believed it was right, in the absence of a direct or imminent threat to our security, to take this debate to Congress.”
In this statement he never says anything along the lines of “we’re going into Syria right away and handling this with brute force.” The New York Times even made note of this in their paper on Wednesday September 11th by saying:
“Mr. Obama did not detail the steps that the United States would demand from Syria as proof that the diplomatic efforts were more than a delaying tactic to avoid a punishing strike from cruise missiles and American bombers.”
Outside Sources: The New York TImes (www.nytimes.com)