Obama tries persuading the skeptical on Syria
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, working to persuade skeptical lawmakers to endorse a U.S. military intervention in civil war-wracked Syria, hosted two leading Capitol Hill foreign policy hawks for talks and directed his national security team to testify before Congress in a determined effort to sell his plan for limited missile strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. After changing course and deciding to seek congressional approval for military action, Obama is confronted with one of his most difficult foreign ...
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