Congress' Doves Rethinking U.S. Military Intervention After Syria's 'Chemical' Attacks -- John Hudson and Noah Shachtman, The Cable/Foreign Policy
For months, a group of dovish lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been fighting against U.S. military intervention in Syria. But after Wednesday's stunning allegations of a massive chemical weapons attack outside of Damascus, even some of these doves are beginning to reconsider intervention as images of lifeless children flash across TV screens.
"If it looks like this is the beginning of a long term chemical weapons campaign from Assad, even I would reevaluate whether the United States needs to step in," Democratic Senator Chris Murphy told The Cable on Thursday.
In May, Murphy was the only senator to join Kentucky libertarian Rand Paul in support of a defeated amendment to prohibit weapons shipments to the Syrian rebels. He urged caution and spoke about the risks of intervention at the time. Now, he conceded, he may reconsider intervention after a series of alleged nerve gas attacks that Syrian opposition forces say may have killed as many as 1,800 people. Eyewitnesses say many of the victims were children.
"If the Assad regime has begun a campaign of systematic chemical weapons attacks, clearly that's going to alter even my analysis," Murphy said.
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My Comment: Wanting one thing and doing it is another .... a U.S. military intervention in Syria is one of those things.
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