The Obama administration should send ammunition to the Syrian rebels, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Wednesday.
The comments from a potential Republican front-runner in 2016 suggest both parties are coalescing around a more forceful U.S. role in the two-year-old civil war.
The White House is reportedly weighing sending non-lethal aid such as body armor directly to the armed opposition, and the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs panel, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), is introducing legislation in the coming days to arm the rebels.
“There are plenty of weapons in Syria. What the opposition really needs is access to ammunition,” Rubio said in an address to the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “Ammunition is something we can provide that is not weaponry per se, but is essential. That's the stuff I'm prepared to advocate for.”
The comments build on what Rubio has been saying for the past week during a visit to Israel, Jordan and the West Bank.
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