US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday made a broad case for limited US military action against Syria . PHOTO: AFP
Kerry also stressed that anything the United States might do would be carefully tailored and would not in any way resemble the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, nor its intervention to help topple former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
“It will not involve any boots on the ground. It will not be open-ended. And it will not assume responsibility for a civil war that is already well underway,” Kerry said of any action US President Barack Obama might pursue.
“Any action that he might decide to take will be (a) limited and tailored response to ensure that a despot’s brutal and flagrant use of chemical weapons is held accountable,” he added in a brief and forceful televised speech at the US State Department. He said other nations that might use weapons of mass destruction were watching to see if Syria escaped with impunity.
Kerry also presented a US government report on its intelligence findings about last week’s chemical attacks in a Damascus district of which UN investigators were still collecting evidence. Kerry claimed that over 1,429 people had been killed including at least 426 children. Kerry added that they had human, signal and geospatial intelligence on movement linked to chemical weapons in the three days leading up to the strike on August 21.
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Kerry was alright before,now lost balance from the day took over as Secretary of State.God help him and Obama junta
@Sexton Blake: Mr. Assad and his foreign minister admit there has been chemical weapons used(though they blame it on the other side).If you persist on denying,as you always do,nobody is obligated to convince you.
Dear Mr. Kerry, We are not falling for it unless you come up with indisputable evidence. The US tried this so called evidence trick once before in Iraq, which was flimsy at best, was subsequently found to be false, but many thousands of people finished up dead and, apart from the dreadful pollution you created, the ones who survived found their countries infrastructure in tatters. I will not go too deeply into how the pollution was created, but suffice to say the US obviously has double standards. Please try to say something intelligent and believable for a change.