{"id":37248,"date":"2013-08-26T08:37:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37248"},"modified":"2013-08-26T08:37:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:37:05","slug":"uk-us-navies-poised-to-strike-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37248","title":{"rendered":"UK & US navies poised to strike Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK’s Telegraph<\/a> reports that the Navies of the United States and the United Kingdom may be ready to launch first strikes against Bashir Assad’s government in Syria as early as this week;<\/p>\n

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Government sources said talks between the Prime Minister and international leaders, including Barack Obama, would continue, but that any military action that was agreed could begin within the next week.<\/p>\n

As the preparations gathered pace, William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, warned that the world could not stand by and allow the Assad regime to use chemical weapons against the Syrian people \u201cwith impunity\u201d. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CNN reports<\/a> that members of Congress are expecting a first strike this week, too.<\/p>\n

“I think we will respond in a surgical way and I hope the president, as soon as we get back to Washington, will ask for authorization from Congress to do something in a very surgical and proportional way. Something that gets their attention, that causes them to understand that we are not going to put up with that kind of activity,” Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.”<\/p>\n

But Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs panel, said President Barack Obama may not need to wait for congressional authorization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m still wondering what the national security interests are in this strike. The media doesn’t seem to be interested in asking. And what with Iran presenting a real threat with it’s nuclear program that has continued unabated for years, but suddenly Syria is the problem that needs to be dealt with right now. I get a “Tonkin Gulf Incident” feeling about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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