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Lawmakers call for force authorization in Syria

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidates accused President Obama on Sunday of showing weakness in U.S. policy in Syria, doubting that his small deployment of special operations troops will make much difference without a coherent broader strategy.
“I don’t have a problem with the tactics of it. And the numbers might even have to be larger at some point,” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said of the Obama administration’s disclosure on Friday of the deployment of fewer than 50 special operations troops on the ground in northern Syria in the coming weeks.
“I think the broader issue is: what is the strategy?” Rubio said on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”
The announcement marked a reversal of Obama’s vow not to send U.S. ground troops into Syria’s civil war, raging since 2011.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham called Obama’s move “a failure on all fronts,” saying American Special Forces are heading “into a very bad spot with no chance of winning.”
“What we’re about to accomplish is to turn Syria over to Russia and Iran, and to make sure that we never destroy ISIL on Obama’s watch, and pass this mess on to the next president,” Graham said the “Fox News Sunday” program, referring to the Islamic State, also called ISIS.
Obama’s term ends in January 2017.


 

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