Concerns amongst lawmakers and officials escalated in light of robust evidence Bashar al Assad’s forces carried out a chemical attack on civilians earlier this week.
“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 we’re not going to put up with this kind of activity,” said Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.
Shortly after the interview, the BBC reported that the Syrian government “agreed to allow UN inspectors to investigate allegations of a suspected chemical weapon attack near Damascus.”
Supporters such as Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) have increasingly advocated for some form of military intervention, but critics previously cautioned against this approach, fearing that intervention could “trigger” a larger conflict and further destabilize the Middle East region.
Amr Moussa, former Egyptian foreign minister and former Secretary-General of the Arab League, warned against intervention on ABC’s This Week. “They always start like that, limited [air] strike, then it widens and grows and grows and then all the region will be involved.”
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