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.
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.
"Our ideals and
principles, as well as our national security, are at stake in Syria,
along with our leadership of a world where we seek to ensure that the
worst weapons will never be used," Obama said in making the case that
the United States must act when dictators such as Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad "brazenly" violate international treaties intended to
protect humanity.
The 15-minute nationally
televised speech initially was planned as Obama's final push to win
support from a skeptical public and Congress for his planned attack on
Syria for what his administration calls a major chemical weapons attack
on August 21 that killed more than 1,400 people in suburban Damascus.
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