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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ _________                                                              August 30, 2013 PRESS BRIEFING BY SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS ON SYRIA Via Conference Call 1:20 P.M. EDT      MS. HAYDEN:  Hi, everyone.  Thanks for joining us on what we know is a busy day.  We are doing this call on background with senior administration officials to talk to you about the documents you just received -- the U.S. government assessment of the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons on August 21st.      The call is on backgro...

Neelam Mathews Aug 31, 2013 They say history repeats itself along with all the mistakes. Now it seems the US might once again be putting its internal security at risk with its decision on military intervention on Syria following its chemical weapons attack. Even as Secretary of State John Kerry explained why military action against Syria was justified, the Heritage Foundation slammed the decision saying it lacked strategy and would not deter Syria to act again, leading to a spiral of violence and escalation of civil war. On Kerry’s remark: “And history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator's wanton use of weapons of mass destruction ………,” Brett Schaefer, Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, said in a concall: “A lot of this is based on emotion that Secy Kerry is playing on.” It is also clear now that Kerry’s reference to many countries willing to support the US were “exa...