Ben Cardin: “If President Assad is not held accountable for his war crimes, it will be a clear message that we are going to see this…”

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

We need to consider how we deal with that.

We are going to do something about this.