In
an editorial just posted, the
Times hails Obama's decision to go to Congress but says he still has a way to go to prove the case for attacking Assad forces in Syria.
If he is to win Congressional support, Mr. Obama and his top aides will
have to explain in greater detail why they are so confident that the
kind of military strikes that administration officials have described
would deter President Bashar al-Assad of Syria from gassing his people again
(American officials say more than 1,400 were killed on Aug. 21) rather
than provoke him to unleash even greater atrocities.
They will also have to explain how they can keep the United States from
becoming mired in the Syrian civil war — something Mr. Obama, for sound
reasons, has long resisted — and how military action will advance the
cause of a political settlement: the only rational solution to the war.
McClatchy reporters tonight, meanwhile,
raised issues about facts, including the alleged death toll.
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