John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, arrives to present the administration's case for U.S. military action against Syria to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington, September 3, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Joshua Roberts
Kerry Defends Obama’s Syria Policy -- Time
The secretary of state said diplomacy has succeeded in reducing Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons in a way that military action never could
Secretary of State John Kerry beat back Republican charges Tuesday that the Obama Administration has not done enough to end the three-year Syrian civil war that has now killed 150,000 people.
“I know there are a lot of concerns about our Syrian policy,” Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said during a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill. “We have no policy from what I can tell, other than again, allowing people to kill each other off. And us making commitments to the opposition that we do not honor, and leaving them in refugee camps and basically stranded without the support we committed to them on the front end.”
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Update: Kerry: US strike in Syria wouldn't be devastating -- AP
My Comment: Can someone please tell me what EXACTLY is the White House policy when it comes to Syria.
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