Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. Reuters
Key White House Ally Wants 'Targeted' Strikes in Syria -- Defense News
WASHINGTON — The United States should press Syria and Russia to enter into talks to end the Syrian civil war, including “targeted” strikes on Bashar al-Assad’s military forces, a White House ally said Tuesday.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, an influential Obama administration ally on Capitol Hill, is calling for America and its allies to conduct “limited, targeted strikes at Assad’s apparatus of terror, including airplanes, helicopters, missiles, tanks and artillery.”
Such strikes should be “coordinated with the actions of the Syrian opposition on the ground,” the Michigan Democrat said in a joint statement with fellow SASC member Angus King, I-Maine.
“Such strikes could degrade Assad’s military capabilities, bring some relief to the embattled Syrian people, show we are serious,” said Levin and King.
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Update: Sen. Levin Calls on Obama to Apply New Pressure to Assad Regime -- Wall Street Journal
My Comment: I suspect that President Obama is under tremendous pressure from his own political party to up the ante on Syria .... even going to war against them. Fortunately .... we have not gone down that road .... yet.
The fall of Assad will be a disaster for the US and a boon to jihadists. This Democrat calls for war but if we get involved and it goes south, he will change his position and blame the Republicans, maybe even Bush. He'll vote to send troops in and then vote against providing them with the resources they need to win. People like Levin disgust me.
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