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Obama: US has a 'moral obligation' to help end civil war in Syria
By Justin Sink - 05/07/13 03:10 PM ET
President Obama said Tuesday that the United States had both a "moral obligation" and a "national security interest" in ending the civil war in Syria.
But the president also said the "perceived" use of chemical weapons in the country was not enough to compel him to military action.
"My job is to constantly measure our very real and legitimate humanitarian and national security interests in Syria, but measuring those against my bottom line, which is what is the best interest of America's security," Obama said at the White House.
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But Obama pointed to past intelligence failures suggesting Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction.
"It didn't work out that well," Obama said.
"I don't make decisions based on 'perceived' and I can't organize international coalitions around 'perceived.'"
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/298281-obama-us-has-a-moral-obligation-in-syria
elleng
(130,865 posts)compared with other recent whatevers, who allowed themself to be manipulated into wrongheaded actions.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)He is all for reducing social security benefits to people who cannot protest.
Parable Arable
(126 posts)And it's indeed troubling that president Obama is advocating for the cutting of some entitlement programs. That being said, I do believe the discussion here is about the president's policy regarding Syria, not about his budget plan. I agree with you that his views on Social Security aren't exactly the best, but I don't think it pertains to this discussion at all.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Then do the opposite.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)We have this man in office ... One who actually thinks and makes decisions based on the evidence.
I shudder to think where we'd be with a President romney.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)since he could do both those things, and pretty well with the support group he had.
(Did I really need that? Better safe than sorry, I guess.