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Christopher Shays: Rather than focusing on destroying elements of the Syrian government forces and choosing sides in a truly brutal civil…

On the recordSeptember 9, 2013
Rather than focusing on destroying elements of the Syrian government forces and choosing sides in a truly brutal civil war, our focus should be on how do we get these chemical weapons out of Syria.
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Christopher Shays
Connecticut

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Shays advocates for prioritizing the removal of chemical weapons over military action.

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The Syrian Government crossed a red line in the use of chemical weapons for which the world community needs to respond, not just the United States.

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A military strike will do nothing to address that issue, and would exacerbate it by accelerating the transfer of chemical weapons to people who would do us harm.

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I would think we would be doing him a hell of a gift to get them out of the country.

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It is a human rights abuse that cannot be tolerated.

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