President Obama To Speak On Syria Next Week

 

White House: Obama To Speak On Syria In Coming Days -- Politico 

President Obama hasn't spoken publicly about his administration's evidence that Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime has crossed his "red line" with its use of chemical weapons, but the White House indicated Friday that he will soon speak out.

 "I'm certain he's going to have opportunities to speak to it, for instance, over the course of the several days that he'll be traveling to Europe. He himself is the one who laid out the red line publicly," deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters Friday.

He later added: "You can fully expect that the president will be heard on these issues repeatedly in the coming days, and the announcement we made yesterday very much reflected his guidance because he was the one who directed the intelligence community to pull together this assessment and directed us to make it public." But Rhodes didn't indicate that Obama has any plans to address the nation in domestic remarks before he heads to Europe.

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My Comment: Before reading this article from the Politico, I was just about to write a post on "Where is President Obama?". President Obama will also need to address the NSA surveillance scandal, and explain why has he expanded this policy when he vowed as candidate Obama in 2007 that he was going to abolish it.