A nice list of "War on Syria" supporters here on the open letter to Obama to intervene in Syria.
Karl Rove and Obama on the same side of an issue?
August 27, 2013
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has once again violated your red line, using chemical weapons to kill as many as 1,400 people in the suburbs of Damascus. You have said that large-scale use of chemical weapons in Syria would implicate “core national interests,” including “making sure that weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating, as well as needing to protect our allies [and] our bases in the region.” The world—including Iran, North Korea, and other potential aggressors who seek or possess weapons of mass of destruction—is now watching to see how you respond.
We urge you to respond decisively by imposing meaningful consequences on the Assad regime. At a minimum, the United States, along with willing allies and partners, should use standoff weapons and airpower to target the Syrian dictatorship’s military units that were involved in the recent large-scale use of chemical weapons. It should also provide vetted moderate elements of Syria’s armed opposition with the military support required to identify and strike regime units armed with chemical weapons.
Moreover, the United States and other willing nations should consider direct military strikes against the pillars of the Assad regime. The objectives should be not only to ensure that Assad’s chemical weapons no longer threaten America, our allies in the region or the Syrian people, but also to deter or destroy the Assad regime’s airpower and other conventional military means of committing atrocities against civilian non-combatants. At the same time, the United States should accelerate efforts to vet, train, and arm moderate elements of Syria’s armed opposition, with the goal of empowering them to prevail against both the Assad regime and the growing presence of Al Qaeda-affiliated and other extremist rebel factions in the country.
Left unanswered, the Assad regime’s mounting attacks with chemical weapons will show the world that America’s red lines are only empty threats. It is a dangerous and destabilizing message that will surely come to haunt us—one that will certainly embolden Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons capability despite your repeated warnings that doing so is unacceptable. It is therefore time for the United States to take meaningful and decisive actions to stem the Assad regime’s relentless aggression, and help shape and influence the foundations for the post-Assad Syria that you have said is inevitable.
Sincerely,
Ammar Abdulhamid Dr. Robert Kagan Elliott Abrams Lawrence F. Kaplan Dr. Fouad Ajami James Kirchick Michael Allen Irina Krasovskaya Dr. Michael Auslin Dr. William Kristol Gary Bauer Bernard-Henri Levy Paul Berman Dr. Robert J. Lieber Max Boot Senator Joseph I. Lieberman Ellen Bork Tod Lindberg Ambassador L. Paul Bremer Mary Beth Long Matthew R. J. Brodsky William J. Luti Dr. Eliot A. Cohen Dr. Thomas G. Mahnken Senator Norm Coleman Dr. Michael Makovsky Ambassador William Courtney Ann Marlowe Seth Cropsey Clifford D. May James S. Denton Dr. Alan Mendoza Paula A. DeSutter David A. Merkel Dr. Larry Diamond Dr. Joshua Muravchik Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky Ambassador Andrew Natsios Thomas Donnelly Governor Tim Pawlenty Dr. Michael Doran Martin Peretz Mark Dubowitz Danielle Pletka Dr. Colin Dueck Dr. David Pollock Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt Arch Puddington Ambassador Eric S. Edelman Karl Rove Douglas J. Feith Randy Scheunemann Reuel Marc Gerecht Dan Senor Abe Greenwald Ambassador John Shattuck Christopher J. Griffin Lee Smith John P. Hannah Henry D. Sokolski Dr. Jeffrey Herf James Traub Peter R. Huessy Ambassador Mark D. Wallace Dr. William Inboden Michael Weiss Bruce Pitcairn Jackson Leon Wieseltier Ash Jain Khawla Yusuf Dr. Kenneth Jensen Robert Zarate Allison Johnson Dr. Radwan Ziadeh Ambassador Robert G. Joseph
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