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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> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910213931/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/10/credible-use-of-force-needed-for-syria-deal-says-former-obama-admin-official/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <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/20130910213931/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/category/christiane-amanpour/" title="View all posts in Christiane Amanpour" rel="category tag">Christiane 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international body, which Van Hollen called a “very positive development.”</p> <p>“There is this opportunity to accomplish our goal,” the House Democrat said, which he described as preventing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from using chemical weapons again.</p> <p>“We all have an obligation to take this seriously,” Van Hollen told Amanpour. “But we also have an obligation to make sure that this is not a distraction.”</p> <p>To that end, he said, a proposed House resolution would allow the president to use military action if after 30 days there were no agreement.</p> <p>“I do think it’s important to have a backstop of a credible use of force,” Van Hollen said.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910213931/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/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div 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class="cnn_first"><strong>By Mick Krever, CNN</strong></p> <p>“We can’t be the world’s policeman,” he told Amanpour, “but we can be the world’s last resort.”</p> <p>Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday that, despite some reticence, he now supports a limited military intervention in Syria.</p> <p>“I have been against American military intervention, and have said so publically,” Kissinger told Amanpour in New York. “This, however, is a use of weapons of mass destruction, which has consequences beyond Syria. … For that reason, and for the limited purpose of penalizing the use of weapons of mass destruction, I support President Obama’s request.”</p> <p>Kissinger said that as much as he can, he has urged congress to authorize the U.S. president’s request to use force.</p> <p>“It would have been a lot better if this had had a formal vote at the UN,” Kissinger said. “But in the last resort, and if the issue is important enough, the United States may have to act – really for the sake of everybody.”</p> <p>“We can’t be the world’s policeman,” he told Amanpour, “but we can be the world’s last resort.”</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910213931/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/09/henry-kissinger-tells-cnns-christiane-amanpour-i-support-president-obama-on-syria/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <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/20130910213931/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/20130910213931/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/category/latest-episode/" title="View all posts in Latest Episode" rel="category tag">Latest Episode</a> • <a 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Rather, let there be a renewed commitment to seek, with courage and determination, a peaceful solution through dialogue and negotiation of the parties.”</p> <p>It’s an emotional appeal for peace, but it’s also significant that it comes in the form of a letter. It comes on the back of a similar missive, this time from the Syrian Parliament – addressed to the speaker of the British Parliament – invoking Shakespeare to encourage MPs to vote against military action in Syria. Which they did. Similar letters have gone to the French Parliament and the UN.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910213931/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/05/imagine-a-letter/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <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/20130910213931/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/category/from-the-amanpour-team/" title="View all posts in From the Amanpour team" rel="category tag">From the Amanpour team</a></span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="cnn_clear"></div> <div class="cnn-large-embed "></div></div> </div> <div class="cnn_post_separator"><div class="cnn_gap"></div><div class="cnn_gap cnn_gap_right"></div></div>   <div class="cnnPostWrap cnn_wh1600_post_separator"> <h2 class="cnnBlogContentTitle"><a 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combative interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.</p> <p>“We haven't declared war to the United States or to any of our neighbors,” Bashar Ja’afari said from the United Nations. “We are not war mongers. We are not war advocates. We are a peaceful nation, a small nation, and we don’t pretend to be equally strong enough to confront the United States military.”</p> <p>From the earliest days of the Syrian civil war, and President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown, Ja’afari has defended his government at the United Nations.</p> <p>The United States, Britain and France say that they now have proof that the Assad regime used chemical weapons against its own people in an attack last week.</p> <p>U.S. President Barack Obama is seeking congressional approval for a military strike against Syria.</p> <p>“We are all victims of any escalation of the Syrian situation,” Ja’afari said. American and European claims against Assad’s regime, he said, “cannot be taken seriously and are not credible.”</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910213931/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/03/syrian-ambassador-bashar-jaafari-change-yes-we-can/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <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/20130910213931/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/20130910213931/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/20130910213931/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/category/syria/" 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