Obama Administration’s Policy of Engaging Syria Comes Under Fire
- Patrick Goodenough - CNSNews.com
- Apr 25, 2011
(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration is facing growing calls to respond firmly to the bloodshed in Syria, as lawmakers from both parties call for a response beyond the issuing of statements condemning the deadly clampdown.
Lawmakers are not proposing military intervention, but rather concrete steps to help the Syrian opposition and to rebuke President Bashar Assad’s regime, such as withdrawing the recently installed U.S. ambassador.
“We should use the diplomatic weight and authority of the United States to undermine the Syrian dictatorship,” Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “I think we are witnessing the slow end of the Assad dictatorship. And we should stand with the people of Syria.”
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