WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has said that he has not yet made a decision regarding a possible US strike against Syria.
“We have not yet made a decision, but the international norm against the use of chemical weapons needs to be kept in place,” Obama said in an interview with PBS Wednesday evening.
Obama said that he has been consulting military leaders and members of his national security team, who have offered various ‘options’ to address the rapidly deteriorating situation in Syria.
However, the president stressed that he has ‘no interest’ in ‘any kind of open-ended conflict’ in the Middle Eastern country.
Obama said that based on the evidence coming out of Syria, it does not appear that the opposition could have carried the deadly attacks on the suburbs of Damascus last week.
“We do not believe that, given the delivery systems, using rockets, that the opposition could have carried out these attacks,” Obama said.
“We have concluded that the Syrian government in fact carried these out. And if that’s so, then there need to be international consequences,” he added.
