Where Was John Kerry on Syria for the Past Six Months?
The Foundry - Secretary of State John Kerry has emerged—perhaps erupted is a better word—as the Obama Administration’s strongest advocate for punitive air strikes against the Assad regime. With his impassioned speech to a global audience at the State Department last Friday, Kerry pleaded for humanitarian intervention in Syria. (That, of course, was before President Obama on Saturday put the brakes on and decided to ask for congressional approval.)
With his testimony Wednesday, Kerry is now front and center of the effort to persuade Congress, which returns from recess on Monday, to authorize military action to deter the further use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians. As The Wall Street Journal put it, “Campaign Against Assad Defining Kerry Legacy.”
For the case made by the Obama Administration, the urgency over Syria’s use of chemical weapons has been nowhere in evidence until a few weeks ago. That is when the Syrian government reportedly used poison gas on 1,400 civilians east of Damascus, including, as is often pointed out, hundreds of children. Read More
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