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 Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:25 pm Post subject: Obama seeks support for attacking Syria while pursuing diplo |
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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama tried Tuesday to sell a military intervention he never wanted to an American public that opposes it, telling the nation that he needed authorization to attack Syria as leverage in a newly emerged diplomatic opening from Russia.
| Quote: | | Calling the United States "the anchor of global security," Obama offered moral, political and strategic arguments for being ready to launch limited military strikes while trying to negotiate a diplomatic solution to what he called Syria's violation of a global ban on chemical weapons. |
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New offer impacts Obama's challenge
However, Monday's unexpected diplomatic overture by Russia changed the strategic and political equation. Under the Russian plan, which still lacks any details, Syria would turn over its chemical weapons stockpiles to international control.
| Quote: | | That would meet Obama's main criterion of ending the chemical weapons threat by the al-Assad regime. |
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