Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Robert F. Hale, the Defense Department's comptroller, testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., April 17, 2013. DOD photo by U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Aaron Hostutler
Pentagon Chief Warns That War In Syria Could Be ‘Lengthy and Uncertain’ -- Danger Room
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned a Senate panel that intervening in Syria’s grinding, brutal civil war risked plunging the U.S. into another bloody conflict. Even as Hagel did so, however, he announced a contingent of soldiers have deployed to neighboring Jordan as a hedge.
“We have an obligation and responsibility to think through the consequences of any direct U.S. military action in Syria,” Hagel told the Senate Armed Services Committee this afternoon. “A military intervention could have the unintended consequence of bringing the United States into a broader regional conflict or proxy war.”
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