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class="cnn_first"><strong>By Mick Krever, CNN<br/> </strong></p> <p>Frederic Hof used to be the point man on the Syrian transition in the U.S. State Department; now, out of government, he could hardly be more critical of President Barack Obama’s policy toward that country.</p> <p>“I believe that the president should have been prepared right at the outset,” Hof, the former U.S. State Department special adviser to the transition in Syria, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. “I think he should have acted quickly. I think he should have authorized military strikes against the tools of terror: the artillery, the aircraft, the rockets, and the missiles.”</p> <p>The potential for those strikes now is looking more and more remote, as a Russian proposal to have Syria turn over control of its chemical weapons gains traction among governments around the world, including the United States.</p> <p><span id="more-6719"></span>Hof, for his part, said it was “hard to tell if the initiative itself is serious.”</p> <p>Even if it is, he told Amanpour, its success will come down to a single thing.</p> <p>“It is the credible use of force that has gotten the Russians and presumably the Syrians interested in doing something about this toxic chemical stockpile,” Hof said. “If congress, in its wisdom, decides to make that credible use of force go away, this Russian proposal will be gone with the wind.”</p> <p>The same, he continued, goes for any potential negotiated solution to the civil war as a whole.</p> <p>“Diplomacy,” he said, “is not possible without the credible use of force remaining on the table.” </p> </div> <div class="cnnFBRecBtnBot cnn_tpad15" id="cnnStryRcmndBtnBtm"></div> <div class="cnnPostFooter cnn_tpad15"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <br/><span class="cnnBlogFiledBy cnn_categories">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/category/christiane-amanpour/" title="View all posts in Christiane Amanpour" rel="category tag">Christiane Amanpour</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/category/latest-episode/" title="View all posts in Latest Episode" rel="category tag">Latest Episode</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/category/syria/" title="View all posts in Syria" rel="category tag">Syria</a></span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="cnn_clear"></div> <div class="cnn-large-embed "></div></div> </div>  <span id="cnnsocial_1" class="cnn_widget cnnsocial_sharebar cnnsocial_sharebar_blogSingleBottom" type="sharebar" version="0.2.2" templates="" data-bind="template: { 'name': 'cnnsocial_template_blogSingleBottom' }"></span> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340oe_/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/10/credible-use-of-force-needed-for-syria-deal-says-former-obama-admin-official/" data-widget-id="AR_3" data-ob-template="cnnedition"></div> <script type="text/javascript" async="async" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340js_/http://widgets.outbrain.com/outbrain.js"></script>  <div style="margin-top: 11px;" class="cnn_divline cnn_divln3pxblck"></div> <div id="comments" class="cnn_comments"> <a name="comments"></a> <h6>sound<b>off</b> <span>(No Responses)</span></h6> <div id="respond"> <h3 style="font-size:16px;">Post a comment</h3> <div class="cancel-comment-reply"> <small><a rel="nofollow" id="cancel-comment-reply-link" href="/web/20130911015340/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/10/credible-use-of-force-needed-for-syria-deal-says-former-obama-admin-official/#respond" style="display:none;">Click here to cancel reply.</a></small> </div> <form action="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <table width="620" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="margin:0px;padding-bottom:8px;"> <tr> <td width="300" style="font-size:11px;"> <label for="author"><b>Name:</b> <small>(required)</small></label><br> <input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" tabindex="1" style="width:300px;"/> </td> <td width="20"> </td> <td width="300" style="font-size:11px;"> <label for="author"><b>E-mail:</b> <small>(required, but will not be displayed)</small></label><br> <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" tabindex="2" style="width:300px;"/> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="620" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="margin:0px;"> <tr> <td colspan="2"><textarea name="comment" id="comment" tabindex="4" class="cnnCommentBlogTextarea" style="width:600px;height:65px;padding-left:0;"></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p style="padding-bottom:20px;"><small>CNN welcomes a lively and courteous discussion as long as you follow the Rules of Conduct set forth in our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://www.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html">Terms of Service</a>. 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He says House plan would give Pres Obama 30 days for Syria plan before mil strikes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/10/u-s-house-democrat-chris-van-hollen-tells-cnns-amanpour-obama-would-have-30-days-for-chemical-weapons-plan-before-military-force/" target="_blank">amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/10/u-s…</a></div> <div class="cnn_tweet_user"> <span class="cnn_tweet_screen_name"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://twitter.com/#!/camanpour" target="_blank">camanpour</a></span> <span class="cnn_tweet_profile_picture"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://twitter.com/#!/camanpour/status/377521042517786624" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340im_/http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2029045737/Capital-Dames-10-Powerful-Women-in-DC_articleimage_normal.jpg" width="35" height="35" alt="Profile picture for camanpour"/></a></span> </div> <div class="cnn_tweet_meta"> <span class="cnn_tweet_date">3:56 pm ET September 10, 2013</span> <span class="cnn_tweet_retweet"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=377521042517786624" target="_blank">RETWEET</a></span> </div> </div> <div class="cnn_tweet cnn_tweet_377503773247025152"> <div class="cnn_tweet_text">House Dem <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://twitter.com/#!/ChrisVanHollen" target="_blank">@ChrisVanHollen</a> tells me Syria proposal would give Obama 30 days to work out "credible plan" before would be allowed to use force</div> <div class="cnn_tweet_user"> <span class="cnn_tweet_screen_name"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://twitter.com/#!/camanpour" target="_blank">camanpour</a></span> <span class="cnn_tweet_profile_picture"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://twitter.com/#!/camanpour/status/377503773247025152" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340im_/http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2029045737/Capital-Dames-10-Powerful-Women-in-DC_articleimage_normal.jpg" width="35" height="35" alt="Profile picture for camanpour"/></a></span> </div> <div class="cnn_tweet_meta"> <span class="cnn_tweet_date">2:48 pm ET September 10, 2013</span> <span class="cnn_tweet_retweet"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=377503773247025152" target="_blank">RETWEET</a></span> </div> </div> <div class="cnn_tweet cnn_tweet_377241036734480384"> <div class="cnn_tweet_text">Chatting w/ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://twitter.com/#!/andersoncooper" target="_blank">@andersoncooper</a> about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130911015340/http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Syria" target="_blank">#Syria</a> on Spreecast. 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