President Barack Obama said any discovery that Syria’s chemicals or biological weapons are being moved or used may shift his position of not ordering U.S. military engagement in that nation’s upheaval “at this point.”
“A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized,” the president told reporters yesterday in a news conference at the White House. “That would change my calculus.”
Obama said the U.S. has “put together a range of contingency plans” for how to deal with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, its violence toward the Syrian people and other forces and has made clear to regional players that there would be “enormous consequences” for any development involvingSyria’s chemical weapons arsenal.
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