U.S. military beginning review of Syria options
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U.S. military beginning review of Syria options
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The Pentagon and the U.S. Central Command have launched a preliminary internal review of U.S. military capabilities towards Syria. Administration officials are preparing options in the event President Obama were to call for them.
"Before we start talking about military options, we very much want to ensure that we have exhausted all the political, economic and diplomatic means at our disposal," Ambassador Susan Rice said on CNN's “Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.”
The president has also said that the U.S. is working on non-military options first.
"I think it is very important for us to try to resolve this without recourse to outside military intervention, and I think that's possible," Obama said in an interview with NBC News that aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday.
The community reacts to the U.S. closely monitoring developments in Syria:
Vierotchka: "Absolutely NOTHING fake about that humanitarian crisis - unless you think that it is normal to torture and kill children, women, old folks, young men, and to bomb their cities. Sheesh!"
rerushg: "It's a human rights issue, right? So why is this our job? I could go into a human-rights-start-at-home rant but I'll stuff that. There are 5 quite formidable nations bordering on Syria and you could throw a rock there from Saudi Arabia. Are they helpless? Or is human rights of no particular concern to them?"
remanns: "The military plans for everything they can conceive of,....and revises plans with some regularity. ( its those things they DONT plan for you need to try to worry about,.... assuming your powers of anticipation are more flexible or refined than theirs ! ) - nice to know that Syria has been recently reviewed a bit though."
letsliveinpeace: "First off, when I was in the USAF, we actually war gamed the first Iraq war during an readiness exercise, so no surprises in this at all, except for the claim provocateurs were used to start this up. I think Assad deserves full credit for that. And since we have seen armored personnel carriers and tanks used by the Syrians, Predator drones armed with Hellfire missiles should change up things real quick, since killing tanks is why they were built in the first place."
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