In a nationwide televised address Tuesday night, US President Barack Obama argued for a punitive military strike against Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons, though he said he is working with Russia on a proposal to defuse the situation by securing Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles, SIA reports citing RIA Novosti.
"If we fail to act, the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons," Obama said in his 15-minute speech from the ornate East Room of the White House. "As the ban against these weapons erodes, other tyrants will have no reason to think twice about acquiring poison gas and using them."
Speaking calmly but firmly, Obama spent the bulk of the address advocating the use of force to deter the future use of chemical weapons, which Washington accuses the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad of deploying in the Aug. 21 attack outside Damascus that the US government says killed more than 1,400 people.
But he also said he would work with Moscow on a Russian-backed proposal to place Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal under international control and that he had asked the US Congress to postpone a vote that he had been pushing for authorizing military action against Syria to give the diplomatic gambit a chance.
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