Syria to Be Solved Internally Not by U.S. Action: Obama [View all]
Source: Bloomberg
By Angela Greiling Keane May 29, 2014 12:00 AM ET
The conflict in Syria will be solved only by the groups within the that country, not by U.S. military involvement, President Barack Obama told NPR News in an interview.
Obama spoke about empowering Syrian moderate opposition following a commencement speech yesterday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he laid out his foreign policy goals for the final years of his presidency.
“I still do not believe that American military actions can resolve what is increasingly a sectarian civil war,” Obama said in the interview scheduled to air today. “Ultimately, the only way you’re going to get a resolution that works for the Syrian people and the region is going to -- is going to require some sort of political accommodation between the various groups there.”
The White House yesterday said it will ask Congress for $5 billion for an anti-terrorism fund to train other countries in a supplemental budget request for the Defense Department.
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