The United States has been gearing up to possibly strike Syria in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Government in their on going two and a half year civil war. The use of chemical weapons was a ¨red line for the Obama administration. Today international weapons experts investigating a poison gas attack in Syria left the country. Hit the jump.
Currently, the United States has five cruise-missile equipped destroyers near Syria and allegedly has been planning “limited, narrow” military action to punish Assad for an attack that Washington said killed 1,429 people.
“We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale,” Obama said on Friday after Washington unveiled an intelligence assessment concluding Assad’s forces were to blame for the attack.
The August 21 attack – the deadliest single incident of the Syrian civil war and the world’s worst use of chemical arms since Iraq’s Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds in 1988 – has galvanized a reluctant Washington to use force after two and a half years on the sidelines.
The U.S public has been overwhelmingly positioned against the use of force in Syria. What do you think?
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