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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI saw the McCain amendment and the word democracy is there. We never learn.
That doesn't sound like "limited," "tailored" strikes.
The first amendment adds language that "absent decisive change to the present military balance of power on the ground in Syria, sufficient incentives do not yet exist" to topple Assad.
The second amendment adds two paragraphs to the resolution:
(a) It is the policy of the United States to change the momentum on the battlefield in Syria so as to create favorable conditions for a negotiated settlement that ends the conflict and leads to a democratic government in Syria.
(b) A comprehensive US strategy in Syria should aim, as part of a coordinated international effort, to degrade the capabilities of the Assad regime to use weapons of mass destruction while upgrading the lethal and non-lethal military capabilities of vetted elements of Syrian opposition forces, including the Free Syrian Army.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/middle-east-live/2013/sep/04/syria-crisis-putin-warns-west-live#block-5227852ce4b03491b6ac8660
phantom power
(25,966 posts)*cough*quagmire*cough*
kpete
(71,986 posts)US Senator John McCain has been photographed during a trip to Syria with a man involved in the kidnapping by terrorists of 11 Lebanese pilgrims a year ago, a Lebanese newspaper says. - See more at: http://en.alalam.ir/news/1479569#sthash.oh69cXXa.dpuf
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1479569
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)G_j
(40,367 posts)"..while upgrading the lethal and non-lethal military capabilities of vetted elements of Syrian opposition forces, including the Free Syrian Army."
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)A war where regime change is their goal (see Iraq 2003-2012)
leftstreet
(36,107 posts)thank you very much
and peace, kp
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)If we do this, Democracy may grow in Syria, but it's dead here.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)before the first salvo. That has to be some kind of record.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,607 posts)They either don't care, or else they think we're this gullible.