How can anyone "empower Syrian moderate opposition"? Is all opposition to Assad now terrorists? At this point is it a choice between Assad and the terrorists (Bashar's version of Bush's infamous "You are with us or you are with the terrorists."
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Obama seems to believe that there is another choice than the "black or white" - Assad or the terrorists choice. Perhaps he should push for self-determination for Syria's Sunni Muslims who represent 70% of Syria's population. That idea seemed to work for ethnic Russians in Crimea.
My reading of his speech is not that the US will never take any action anywhere. Indeed he said the US would lead just not with its military. "Just because you have the best hammer in the world does not mean that every problem is a nail."
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