Obama: Syria's Assad "will fall", but no air strikes

[Little Tich]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday it was only a matter of time before Syria's President Bashar al-Assad left office, but added it was a mistake to think the U.S. could take unilateral action there.

"Ultimately this dictator will fall," Obama said at a news conference, adding that it was not a question of if but when Assad would be forced out.

But he squarely opposed a call by U.S. Senator John McCain who on Monday urged U.S. air strikes on Assad's forces.

McCain, an influential Republican who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential election, said the United States should lead an international effort to protect Syrian cities and towns.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/03/06/syria-idINDEE8250BH20120306

[orpupilofnature57]

1. It's refreshing to have Circumspect

in the Whtehouse ,again.

[MisterP]

5. I'll go alert the Pakistanis, Yemenites, Libyans, Somalis, Afghans, and Iraqis

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Afganistan & Iraq were bequeathed to him

and they sure did love having us there , Pakistan harbors Misanthropes while we PAY them ,Lybia was POPPY ,not Barack, Somolia needs intervention with the World ,and Yemen is as unstable as ever ,point in fact http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-07/al-qaeda-yemen-attack/53402222/1

[AverageJoe90]

2. Amen to that. =) nt

[David__77]

3. Thankfully this is an election year.

Otherwise, I fear that he would have repeated his Libyan folly. In any case, he deserves credit for having opposed intervention so far.

[JennyCait]

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