President Obama and Congress should resist calls to rush the U.S. into military involvement in the Syrian civil war. No U.S. military intervention should happen in Syria without explicit Congressional authorization and UN Security Council approval. The U.S. should support a political solution that ends the war.
Why is this important?
Republican Senators like Lindsey Graham and John McCain are demanding that the Obama Administration get the U.S. involved militarily in Syria's sectarian civil war. But after the experience of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, President Obama and U.S. military leaders are right to be wary of these calls. If we don't have enough money for Social Security, veterans' benefits, Head Start, and cancer clinics, we don't have enough money for another war. Urge Congress and the President to resist calls for another rush to war in the Middle East, and support a political solution instead.
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