One thing conspicuously missing from Obama's speech

[eridani]

Not one single mention of providing material aid to 2 million Syrian refugees, which would beat the hell out of frying even more civilians within Syria.

Not that Congress would allow it, but why not take the moral high road and lambaste the vicious amoral sociopaths for not allowing it?

[Tx4obama]

1. Yes, it is in there - at the beginning of the speech

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THE PRESIDENT: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria -- why it matters, and where we go from here.

Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the repressive regime of Bashar al-Assad has turned into a brutal civil war. Over 100,000 people have been killed. Millions have fled the country. In that time, America has worked with allies to provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate opposition, and to shape a political settlement. But I have resisted calls for military action, because we cannot resolve someone else’s civil war through force, particularly after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Full transcript here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/remarks-president-address-nation-syria

[Summer Hathaway]

2. Oh noes!!!!!

You have ruined someone's poutrage by citing facts!

[eridani]

3. Where did he suggest that aid rather than a military attack be the

--primary response to the Syrian crisis? Where does he try to convince Congress of this?

[JI7]

4. we have already been providing non military aid for a long time

so it's a matter of whether we will also provide military aid or just continue to do humantarian. and there are many libertarian types who want to cut that off.

and Obama mentioned it in his speech as pointed out above.

[Tx4obama]

5. What you said in your OP was...

What you said in your OP was: "... Not one single mention of providing material aid to 2 million Syrian refugees ... "

And what I posted in my previous reply to you (and also down below) points to where in his speech President Obama DID mention the humanitarian support/aid that we have been giving and are still giving to the refugees.

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THE PRESIDENT: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria -- why it matters, and where we go from here.

Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the repressive regime of Bashar al-Assad has turned into a brutal civil war. Over 100,000 people have been killed. Millions have fled the country. In that time, America has worked with allies to provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate opposition, and to shape a political settlement. But I have resisted calls for military action, because we cannot resolve someone else’s civil war through force, particularly after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Full transcript here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/remarks-president-address-nation-syria